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It happens to me very often but I blame it on circumstances. I typically interview at companies that have started a data science team with one guy fresh out of
by bertil 8y ago
It happens to me very often but I blame it on circumstances. I typically interview at companies that have started a data science team with one guy fresh out of a Master’s or a PhD, who think that his dissertation topic if the end-all of data science, so they will quiz you insistently on scaling issues of a rare alternative to random forest. “I’m sure that with 20 minutes look at the literature, I could answer your question.” doesn’t cut it. Neither does “I’m happy to talk about the implementation details of my PhD on clustering large scale social graph rapidly.” or “I’m interviewing for a leadership position; I’d love to talk to you about my managerial habits.” It tends to feel like a relief.
- scarejunba 8y agoHow do you feel about questions about principles? They may look like “Are you familiar with regularization in machine learning and why it’s used?”
- bertil 8y agoOh, by far that’s the more reasonable interview. That’s actually how I test an audience when I speak in public (I might be a bit more specific, like “should you regularise your data before a PCA?”): I ask the question, those who have an opinion, I brand them as “in the know” and I introduce a gesture towards them; and the others, I say that my talk isn’t technical, but I re-use both gestures when making that distinction again. A friend of mine had a brilliant equivalent when talking about data engineering, saying “And we never had any problem after that.” https://youtu.be/ZaAbOKNWGA8?t=210 https://youtu.be/ZaAbOKNWGA8?t=210 A group at the back burst out laughing and you can see him re-use them later.