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- vote Better practical ML skill for the future Current PhD student trying to figure out what to work on in my "spare time". Right now I have relatively broad ML/stats abilities. I'll hopefully finish my PhD in 2 years, and I want to work in an ML-SWE (not research) role. I'll have time for 1 more internship. I'm trying to figure out which ML a
- Landed late stage (non technical) interviews with Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Slack, Pinterest, and Square. AMA. I spent the past two months actively engaged in interviewing for a mid level non technical role. I engaged with a total of 25 tech companies either through online application, referral, or sourced via recruiter (meaning they reached out to me and I engaged). I got call backs from about 13 out of 2
- vote Best career path for a DS Senior DS with 4+ yoe with a bachelors. I don’t know where to take my career from here without making a significant change (back to school, studying SWE, etc.). I feel like I’m quickly approaching the ceiling of what I can do and get paid in DS without going into the PHD research side of things. Wha
- How long after Microsoft virtual onsite to wait for feedback? Hey all, Went through a SDM loop yesterday for an L65/L66 role in NYC. Wondering how long it usually takes to get feedback? After my phone screen it took 2 weeks so curious if thats the case with this one. Had 4 rounds, 4th was asapp with GEM (skip level), HM is a Principal Manager, role is princi
- How many attempts before you land your 1st/2nd job I recently landed a job in bay area, this was my first job change. I had never even attempted to switch the job before, so when I started giving interviews I was really bad. Made the stupidest mistakes in some interviews. Sometimes felt that interviwers were stupid in asking sort of questions they s
- Looking for an executive coach - recommendations? I recently transitioned into a senior (director level) internal strategy position at a fintech startup where I interface directly with senior leadership and the C-Suite. As softer skills have become more important I’m seeking to grow my influence, strengthen my communication and develop better exec
- vote Choosing between domains I'm going through my CS masters for ML and my school suggests we take some electives to build up some domain knowledge so we are a little more well rounded upon graduation. Of the suggested elective areas they offer, the two I'm considering are financial engineering and data security. The financial
- Data Analyst/Scientist or Software Engineer? hi friends, I am transitioning my career from banking/accounting to tech and am doing a master degree in Stats/ data related areas. I am on track to graduate this May and planned to do job hunting this Spring then boom! COVID-19 happened and it became extremely hard to find entry level jobs now.
- How to get a meaningful Data Science job I have held plenty fancy titles in my ~5 years of data science career - Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist, product analyst, manager etc. these have all been with big companies. However, my work has mostly been pretty adhoc / monotonous in nature - ETL / Adhoc models etc. In most roles, I have be
- Opposite of home sickness in the Us Hey, has anyone had more of a desire to go on adventures outside of your “home” whatever that may be to you? For the last year I’ve played it pretty safe with my career and I want to make big plays, but a lot of the “big plays” id like to make involve leaving Michigan. And tbh leaving the US. I’m a
- ML Interviews!!!! I have been actively interviewing for ML roles. Working as an MLE currently. For most of the companies you get 1) Coding round leetcode style 2) System Design/ machine learning design or both 3) ML depth : From your domain to write down Bayesian version of the problem statement, explain lottery tick
- mock interview help for Facebook MLE and other FANG in queue Hey all I am entry level programmer working as MLE. I have a Facebook ML engineer interview coming up soon What preparation should I do apart from leetcode and reading lot of books and online courses? I am really struggling with mock interview and coding whiteboard interviews. Experience in so
- Is My Masters (In Progress) Hurting Applications I'm having a hard time getting interviews for data scientist roles. I have an undergrad in statistics, 4 YoE in data engineering (mostly infrastructure/pipelines), and I have been working part time on a Master's in Stats which will be done in December. I've only got a couple electives and a final pr
- Buying multiple properties in Midwest followed by 1031 exchange to buy a house in Bay area I live in Bay area, age 32, TC: ~320K. My investments are all in stock market. I want to buy a home in Bay area in the future, but it is expensive. I'm thinking of buying multiple properties in Midwest over the next 10 years, and them use some or all of them with a 1031 exchange to avoid taxes, and
- Numerical Modeling PhD (NOT a SWE). Any teams at FAANG in need someone mathy to tackle tough modeling problems? Hey Blind. PhD with strong numerical modeling background here. Have largely worked in computational mechanics but am absolutely qualified for roles that extend beyond that. Think strong in numerical formulations and solutions with ODEs, PDEs, integral equations, probability, stats, etc. I code
- Quant vs roles in tech? I worked at both Amazon and Bloomberg as SDE and I have lots of passion and experiences with machine learning (so basically I’m MLE). I’m strong and interested in both engineering/CS and math/stats, and my career goal is certainly to bring these two together. So for career development, I could cho
- Data Scientist Referrals Hi all - I'm ready for a new challenge and would appreciate any help with referrals for data scientist or product analytics positions. I have 2 YoE in a marketing analytics position and 2 YoE as a DS in my tagged company, so call it 4 YoE. I have prior experience in A/B testing, general aptitude i
- UK vaccinations: Reopening London FANG Offices I wanted to make a projection on when FANG offices would open up again. So I listened to BoJo speak today and he said they will be administering about 100k jabs a day starting Jan 15. So let’s do the math: People over 60 in UK: 16mil People 50-60 in UK: 9mil People 40-50 in UK: 8.5mil People 30-4
- Breaking into Hedge Funds / Prop Shops without Ivy or Big-N Hey everyone, I'm looking to get some honest insight into how one could pursue quantitative finance, while not coming from an Ivy or Big N internship. I'm about to enter my junior year as a CS student at a Top-20 CS program (Stats minor), and am about to finish my third summer internship (SWE) wit
- Is Meta MLE better or research data scientist? Hi folks, It happen to be that I have received two interview invites from Meta. The MLE recruiter has been chasing me since past couple of months while I was trying to do more leetcode and prepare ML/Stats concepts. Then I realized that there is research data scientist which could be more aligned g
- No point chasing promo in Amazon Been a L4 for 2 and a half years now. Manager just gives some BS reasons for not promoting while he has promoted 2 other folks. I have delivered more things and have worked on more things than them. If you go by CR stats, mine are double than them in posted and commented. I have done Ops wins, wrote
- vote Google Interview Chances So I just had my Google onsite interview for L3 and I was curious what you guys think of chances 1 - came up with multiple solutions, told to do one after trade offs, couldn't see a basic edge case for like 10 minutes. Get it finally and implement code. He seemed to want me to succeed from resume q
- Google/Netflix DS referral Hello, I am currently a BIE at Amazon. I am looking to transition to the role of a Data Scientist by the end of this year (personal goal). To achieve this at Amazon, I pushed for and am currently owning a stats heavy forecasting project which involves substantial coding with Python. In parallel,
- What is the difference in TC, Skills needed and job duties between Data Scientist vs. Product Analyst at FAANG? I have seen other posts around this topic but none of them gave specifics. So, posting this question for specifics on TC, Skills needed & key differences in day to day activities. I have started preparing for interviewing in these roles and want to know +/- in each of these and focus accordingly. E
- Experienced DS looking for referrals to break into tech I have been in my current company for 6 years and need a change. TC is fine and wlb is great, but work is boring. Started interviewing, had three onsites ( FB, Square and Zillow) all rejects with different amount of feedback. Which I think has been super specific and easy to work on ( don't use muc
- DL/NLP Course recommendation Hi, I have been in Analytics for 4-5 years now. I know ML & Stats fairly well and have experience writing & understanding codes in Python. I know SQL, have a fair understanding of DS in Python. I am currently jobless and trying to apply for the few opportunities that come up. However, I am not gett
- vote Going from SWE to PM? (Salary Poll) Hey all- I’m currently interviewing for PM roles as an engineer. I think I have the right skill sets and background and interest to be a good PM. I’m at a final stage with two companies and we’ll begin taking numbers more specifically this week (already have a call scheduled with one of them). I’m e
- What is the good resource for preparing to FAANG interviews? Especially for none-technical questions I'm working as software developer in stat-up in Mid West. The problem that it is just a second place where I worked in my career and interviews to get both jobs were too simple to gain a good experience in interviewing process. I'm doing leetcode every day and refreshing CS fundamentals. I'm readi
- Analytics to DS? What to focus on to make the transition? I currently work more in analytics than I do in DS, but I'd really like to move over to more technical work over the next year. I know not having direct exp in a field can hurt your chances at being a great immediate fit, so I'm looking for some insight into what I can do to shore up the lack of dir
- Career Advice for a Late Bloomer I write SQL queries for reports and use an arcane reporting tool called Jasper Studio, and some Tableau. I'm in NYC at a non profit with 83k TC/3 yoe. I'm also a teaching assistant at a data analytics/viz boot camp run by Trilogy education at Columbia - 13k TC. We cover basic Python, Pandas, data