Zillow Data Scientist interview questions

First there was a phone screening and then they emailed a coding task to complete. They asked to basically code a function thats sorts data according to a certain criteria

This is a phone interview. The recruiter is attached to data scientist role. First, she asks me to give introduction of my experience in doing data analysis during my graduate study. I give a detailed introduction of several projects, especially the competition I join in Kaggle. During my talk, she asks some basic knowledge about some machine learning algorithms, such as SVM, ensemble and regression. Finally, she asks me to do an off-line assignment which asks me to design an algorithm to analysis some data.