Insight Data Science Data Scientist interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up doing a fairly fun, conversation-like interview with a shared screen demo.

The process started with a one-hour video chat where I walked through what I’d done in my Ph.D. at a high level, then we got into the technical aspects of how I used machine learning and data science during grad school. They wanted an overview of the steps in a Jupyter notebook, so I explained the workflow rather than dumping equations.

Later, another interview continued the same theme: I had a project prepared and discussed it with screen sharing, including how I got and cleaned the data and why I chose one model over another. The questions felt grounded in the project itself—more about

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