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How many data scientist jobs are actually out there? I can understand data scientist being a position at one of the big 5 tech companies, but are they really in demand elsewhere? I've never actually met someone off the internet who calls themselves a data scientist.
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What kinds of technical questions do they ask in a data science interview?
On the stats side, often higher-level theory questions, such as "How does the k-means algorithm work?", "How do you select the best k for k-means?", "What is the curse of dimensionality?" which again would not be things covered at a data boot camp or data science thought pieces on Medium. On the technical side, there is often more-advanced SQL (nested JOINs + PostgreSQL window functions). On the big data side, there…
Foundations of Data Science (Blum, Hopcroft, Kannan) https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book2016June9.pdf
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kinds of technical questions do they ask in a data science interview?
On the stats side, often higher-level theory questions, such as "How does the k-means algorithm work?", "How do you select the best k for k-means?", "What is the curse of dimensionality?" which again would not be things covered at a data boot camp or data science thought pieces on Medium. On the technical side, there is often more-advanced SQL (nested JOINs + PostgreSQL window functions). On the big data side, there…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kinds of technical questions do they ask in a data science interview?
On the stats side, often higher-level theory questions, such as "How does the k-means algorithm work?", "How do you select the best k for k-means?", "What is the curse of dimensionality?" which again would not be things covered at a data boot camp or data science thought pieces on Medium. On the technical side, there is often more-advanced SQL (nested JOINs + PostgreSQL window functions). On the big data side, there…
Unfortunately there is very little here that isn't just general interview advice. As a new grad that went through the hunt very recently - it was a messy process. Very few places will consider you without extensive experience, or a masters/Ph.D. Of course if you're hiring people to research machine learning algorithms that's justifiable, but plenty of the responsibilities people associate with data scientists don't r…
How many data scientist jobs are actually out there? I can understand data scientist being a position at one of the big 5 tech companies, but are they really in demand elsewhere? I've never actually met someone off the internet who calls themselves a data scientist.
How many data scientist jobs are actually out there? I can understand data scientist being a position at one of the big 5 tech companies, but are they really in demand elsewhere? I've never actually met someone off the internet who calls themselves a data scientist.
Unfortunately there is very little here that isn't just general interview advice. As a new grad that went through the hunt very recently - it was a messy process. Very few places will consider you without extensive experience, or a masters/Ph.D. Of course if you're hiring people to research machine learning algorithms that's justifiable, but plenty of the responsibilities people associate with data scientists don't r…
applied to ~85 data science positions. I can't even get recruiters to call me for a phone screening, so don't feel down =)
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On the stats side, often higher-level theory questions, such as "How does the k-means algorithm work?", "How do you select the best k for k-means?", "What is the curse of dimensionality?" which again would not be things covered at a data boot camp or data science thought pieces on Medium. On the technical side, there is often more-advanced SQL (nested JOINs + PostgreSQL window functions). On the big data side, there…
Having never been to a data boot-camp -- what _do_ they teach there, if those wouldn't be covered?
Metis, another known bootcamp, does explicitly mention things like k-means, which is something I didn't know: https://www.thisismetis.com/data-science-bootcamps
Unfortunately there is very little here that isn't just general interview advice. As a new grad that went through the hunt very recently - it was a messy process. Very few places will consider you without extensive experience, or a masters/Ph.D. Of course if you're hiring people to research machine learning algorithms that's justifiable, but plenty of the responsibilities people associate with data scientists don't r…
Most of these listings have over-inflated experience requirements. A lot of them will entertain you even if you have half the experience they ask for.
Definitely will take note of that in the future though.