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How do you test for programming ability in an interview? Especially for people without a lot of work experience (e.g. graduating from college) One data enginee
by huac 10y ago
How do you test for programming ability in an interview? Especially for people without a lot of work experience (e.g. graduating from college)
One data engineering role asked me to implement k-means from scratch and one data science role asked me to do some algorithms whiteboarding. But beyond this, people just asked SQL. From the rest of this thread it doesn't look like people would consider that to be 'SWE ability'.
- nicoburns 10y agoSet someone the interviewee a programming task. This is pretty standard for developer jobs, and is absolutely fantastic for people without work experience (as it gives them another way to probe their skill).
- huac 10y agoI mean, I did a bunch of take-home tests. But those were focused on doing an analysis on some dataset, focused on answering a question. Should data scientists be expected to do more than that? Or are you expecting a certain level of code quality from them? Within a 48 hour time window?