Background: 10-15 years DS/ML/Software Engineer. Working on the Stripe Data Science take home project. Says it is supposed to take 4-6 hours. I've spent twice that and am not done. It's not difficult, per se, just a ton of analysis/work with 3 columns of data. I would consider myself fairly competent and resourceful, but this is making me second guess myself. Has anyone else done this take home? Edit: Spent about 12 hours on this. A couple days after submission, received generic rejection email from Stripe with no feedback regarding take-home. TC: 0K #stripe
Take Home is always like that.. I ended up spending the entire weekend over a failed TH in 21. Good luck!
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Ha, yeah ChatGPT would be a good head start, should have done that from the beginning instead of slogging my way through it.
That’s normal for take home tasks. Companies ask to spend no more than 4 hours to make them feel good about themselves - like they don’t ask for much. in reality, people easily spend 2 full days to get a job done well
Yeah take homes are bullshit
Take home tests should be compensated IMO.
My Stripe take home took a full weekend. It was worth the investment. I love working here.
Good to hear that you made it through even after a big time investment.
What is your role?
This is exactly why I posted that questions. This is insane these companies giving take home chellange
Interesting 15 years ago - 2007/2008 period all ML/DL/NN are theory and no team is doing .. surprisingly I can see people mentioning 15 years experience in ML .. is it industry general experience ?
Correct, I have not been doing ML for 15 years.
Lolllll statistical learning was around in 2007
Yeah I spent all weekend on a stripe take home plus writing the one pager to explain it. Had to present it in the full loop, didn’t get the job. I vowed I would never do a take home again lol.
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Ugh that’s too much honestly. I hate it