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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. Understandably, there’s a preference for people with strong programming skills. Let’s look in a different haystack!

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. systems programming Doesnt know what a compiler, linker or interpreter is Basic understanding of compilers, linker and interpreters. Software Engineering.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

He then dissects a simple SQL query ( DELETE FROM some_table WHERE id = 1234; ) and gives several quick reasons why performance could vary widely when this query is executed. The folks from the management consulting firm did all the design and analysis; we wrote the code to work with the massive databases that supported this.

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

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. I’ve used Compact.NET (in pre-iPhone era), GUI programming for windows, and games with XNA.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! 2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. mockingbird? Bless you, chile!