Re:Ask HN: [Data Science] What would make you hire a guy who...
by jstewartmobile on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:34AM
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I roll in an unusual way, so take this with a grain of salt:
I'm very dubious of resumes. Typical resume is an alphabet-soup of "hot" technologies alongside a 4.0 GPA they got by remembering, regurgitating, then forgetting.
Two things that seal the deal for me are: A) well-executed personal projects that they can B) discuss their methodology fluently, casually, and competently so that I know it is truly their own work. If they can do A and B, I don't even care if they graduated high school.
That, and the definition of "data scientist" is somewhat up-in-the-air. A lot of jobs listed as "data scientist" are really more like map-reduce DBAs than anything remotely resembling science.
I'm very dubious of resumes. Typical resume is an alphabet-soup of "hot" technologies alongside a 4.0 GPA they got by remembering, regurgitating, then forgetting.
Two things that seal the deal for me are: A) well-executed personal projects that they can B) discuss their methodology fluently, casually, and competently so that I know it is truly their own work. If they can do A and B, I don't even care if they graduated high school.
That, and the definition of "data scientist" is somewhat up-in-the-air. A lot of jobs listed as "data scientist" are really more like map-reduce DBAs than anything remotely resembling science.