RejectedOnsite

Solid Through ML and Coding, Tripped Up by Business and Stats

TuroData Scientist · Onsite · Feb 2026

Sharing a rejection experience from Turo. The interview process itself was actually pretty good — I could tell that if I'd gotten in, I would have learned a lot. Unfortunately I still got rejected. Round 1 was an HR screen. It was mostly going through my resume, and based on what was on there they'd ask some ML-related questions, like what's the difference between XGBoost and LightGBM. Round 2 wa…

Shared by a candidate · reported Feb 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.