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First American Financial Corationation is a leading provider of title insurance, settlement services, and real estate data solutions for property transactions. The company is one of the largUnited's's largU-based-States. title insurance underwriters, serving home buyers, sellers, lenders, and real estate professals.

2 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

First American·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026
Technical round at First American for a Data Scientist role, basically one long deep-dive into a past ML project. They wanted the full story from problem framing to deployment, not just the model accuracy number.
  • Walk me through an ML model you built recently. What problem was it solving for the business, what technical issues did you run into and how did you work through them, and how did you decide the model was ready to ship?

“This is the kind of question that sounds easy until you're actually in it and realize you're being asked to cover like six different things at once.”

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First American·Data Scientist·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jul 2026
Behavioral round at First American for a Data Scientist role, focused almost entirely on how you work with people rather than anything technical. Three questions, all about communication and collaboration, and they really pushed for specifics.
  • Tell me about a time you had to work with ambiguous business requirements. How did you figure out what was actually being asked?
  • Give an example of a time you had a conflict or misalignment with someone on your team. How did you handle it?
  • How do you explain a complex or abstract technical concept to someone without a technical background?

“This one tripped me up a little because my first instinct was to talk about a technical problem, not a stakeholder problem.”

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