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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

Most founders don’t know where to begin the search, who to look for – not to mention how to bring a data scientist on board so he or she can make valuable contributions to the company. 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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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. I learned that software engineers?—?or

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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.

Java 107
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand.