Was approached for a principal data scientist role at Snowflake. First round will be an informal chat with senior member of hiring team. Can anyone speak to the DS culture there, TC or interview process? TC: 400k #ds #snowflake #interview #data #dataanalytics #datascience @snowflake @datascientist
YoE?
Both culture and TC would depend on org
Op, what is your YOE and background?
I have heard terrible things about snowflake data science, but I also heard terrible things about doordash data science. So go ahead I guess
Principal is just every green req. Go to levels.fyi and whatever you map on DoorDash to snowflake , that’s the level you will get . Snowflake don’t promote on hire. If this is product data science team then be ready to do hard core data engineering. If it is other team then more ML and analytics
Im currently an Applied Scientist at AWS, can I DM you for a referral to a ML role at Snowflake ?
No “promote on hire” is such a load of bs, why does snowflake go off of subjective mappings made on levels instead of actual skills and experience. Can’t you just lie, it should be encouraged to get around such absurd policies that are trying to wage fix
You just said you have been approached for the role , why you need referral ?
Thanks for the feedback above! don’t need referral, have initial chat set up w hiring team member. Shot you a dm w details
Is it product team? If yes then say no! It has super toxic atmosphere and all you are going to do is basic data engineering plus some “cool” visualization!!!
Yup it’s data engineering , pipeline and building dashboards . Folks have talent but their time is gone in building dashboards . Research or applied scientist have no space / limited space in snowflake , it’s small company with limited data so hard to do ML without overkill the solution .
OP what was the TC offered?
What are you currently? Senior DS?
With his TC im guessing staff, unless that's including stock appreciation
You’re probably right