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These kinds of stories seem insane to me. I currently have to do some data science-y stuff in the more generalist consulting dev role I have. I used to do a lot
by claudeganon 6y ago
These kinds of stories seem insane to me. I currently have to do some data science-y stuff in the more generalist consulting dev role I have. I used to do a lot of SQL stuff years ago, but have forgotten most of the syntax beyond the basics. That being said, all it took is some minor googling and reading of a few blog posts to solve some middling hard problems for my client.
What kind of companies make people jump through these nerd hoops? Do they actually have real work that needs doing or is this all just posturing by interviewers?
- gerbler 6y agoI think an element of it is that you can have unambiguous questions with SQL, which taken to the extreme do fall into gotcha territory. I was an interviewer for a business analyst & data science team recently and we needed to hire several analysts & data-scientists who had strong SQL skills because 90% of the data manipulation/processing used SQL. I was definitely aware that this limits who we hire, but we were very short-staffed and needed people so it was easiest for us to hire people who had a good understanding of SQL. That said, we did not care about syntax subtleties, just more if could you generally answer questions using SQL. And for the data-scientist role there was a lot more than just SQL but it was a useful check.