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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. This simply reallocates scarce resources. So, what’s the alternative?

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

algorithms Unable to find the average of numbers in an array (Its hard to believe but Ive interviewed such candidates) Basic sorting, searching and data structure traversal and retrieval algorithms Tree, Graph, simple greedy and divide and conquer algorithms, is able to understand the relevance of the levels of this matrix.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm.

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