Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Tinder with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Tinder overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Tinder as a Data Scientist according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 9%
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Application to first round of interviews was a month, then had a take home challenge and then had a final round. Overall a good experience and was nice to meet people and get a sense of the culture, team, and the projects they work on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal DS questions, including some focus on experimentation.
I started with a Recruiter Screening phone call, and then had my first round conversational interview with the Hiring Manager who was the Director of Marketing Analytics. I did not make it past this round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked what the impact of an ML project was after put into production
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Tinder
Interview
In the last round, they would give you a homework to finish which includes part of the recent data of Tinder and you have to generate some ideas from it.
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tinder (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
Standard process. Met with the recruiter to discuss data team at Tinder. I chose to not continue the process but would have been a standard data interview with hiring manager and panel.