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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

When looking for a data scientist, the default approach for many companies is to go after software engineers with a strong interest in statistics, data mining and machine learning. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. Finding a data scientist is hard.

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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 learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Matt Sherman.

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