Upstart Interview Experiences

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  Recalling All 5 Online Assessment QuestionsUpstart · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  All 5 real questions, fully recalled. Question 1: Sum of multiples of 3, 5, 7 less than a given number For example, if the given number is 12, the multiples of 3 below it are 3, 6, and 9; the multiples of 5 are 5 and 10; and the multiple of 7 is 7 — so sum = 3 + 6 + 9 + 5 + 10 + 7 = 40 (12 itself, although a multiple of 3, is not included). Note: the original post's formatting here was garbled (s…

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  Six OA Questions Buried in Walls of TextUpstart · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  Very easy, 6 questions. The biggest challenge was that most of the questions were way too long — it took more than 2 minutes just to read and understand each one, and if you didn't pass on the first try, debugging got really stressful. For example, the first question (8 minute time limit) opened with a long paragraph about someone in medieval times who wrote a manuscript... two minutes later... t…

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  Upstart Data Scientist interview: fast-paced statistics and probability questionsUpstart · Data Scientist · HR Screen · Jul 2026

  After the recruiter screen, I was told the hiring-manager interview would be a straightforward conversation with one technical question at the end. Instead, brief introductions led into deep theoretical statistics and difficult mental math. The interviewer moved extremely fast. When I was unsure or interpreted something differently, I didn't feel I received enough clarification to get back on tra…

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  Three OA Questions, Stuck on a Grid-Search TimeoutUpstart · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Apr 2026

  There were three questions in total, and two of them hadn't shown up in any interview reports before. Given a list of coordinates (x, y), find the min x, min y, max_x - min_x, and max_y - min_y. The problem statement was basically: filter out (name, score) pairs where the score is above a threshold, keep everything below the threshold, then find the max score among what's left and return its name…

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  Four OA Problems, Not Enough TimeUpstart · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Mar 2026

  Rejected

  Time was way too tight, the problems were super long and wrapped in scenarios, so I spent forever just reading through them. I didn't pass all the test cases on questions 3 and 4, so I definitely failed this one. Let me vent for a second too. I was job hunting around this same time last year, and it clearly feels way harder this year. Can people actually get all 4 of these problems bug-free withi…

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  A Statistics-Heavy Hiring Manager ScreenUpstart · Data Scientist · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

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  In Q4 2024, a recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a staff DS role at their company. After a short conversation, we scheduled a one-hour phone screen with the hiring manager (an ML Applications Director). After a brief self-introduction, we moved into the first part. He asked me to walk him through a project where I needed to measure impact but couldn't launch an experiment. I described…

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  Same Questions Recycled Between RoundsUpstart · Data Scientist · Intern · Onsite · Dec 2025

  Offer

  Overall, the experience was pretty good. The HR person and the few interviewers I dealt with were all really supportive — nobody looked down on international candidates. There was no HR screen — I went straight into the first-round tech interview. The interviewer didn't even ask about my resume; we did a quick self-introduction and then went straight into the questions. The questions were: An ato…

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  One Tech Screen, a Two-Round Virtual Onsite, and an Offer a Week LaterUpstart · Data Scientist · Onsite · Nov 2025

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  Overall the experience was quite good — the HR person and the several interviewers I dealt with were all very supportive, and none of them looked down on international candidates. There was no HR screen; I went straight into the first technical round. The interviewer didn't ask about my resume at all at first — just had me do a quick self-introduction and then went straight into questions. The qu…

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  SQL Screen Then a Four-Round Onsite Full of Case StudiesUpstart · Data Scientist · Onsite · Oct 2025

  Three SQL questions, no need to actually run the query. There's a marketing table (by marketing_touch), and another one is a conversion table. The first question is to calculate avg count by month. The second is to find the last touch before conversion, by company (or by month, I don't quite remember). The third is: conversion and last touch both happened in some particular month, and how many co…

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  Two Interviews Years Apart, Same Clash With the InterviewerUpstart · Data Scientist · Senior+ · Onsite · Oct 2025

  I applied to this company years ago, right after graduation, and it felt like neither I nor the phone-screen interviewer were really into each other. Fast forward many years, and this time the HR screen and phone screen actually went well at first — but the virtual onsite took me right back to those days. I ran into another interviewer where, again, neither of us was really into the other. That s…

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  A Hardcore Stats Screen With the Hiring ManagerUpstart · Data Scientist · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Dec 2024

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  In Q4 2024 a recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a staff DS role at their company. After a quick chat we scheduled a one-hour screen with the Hiring Manager (the ML Applications Director). After a short self-introduction we got into the first part. He asked me to walk him through a project at work where I needed to measure impact but couldn't launch an experiment. I gave him the backgro…