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- Advice for career change Studied the wrong thing in college. Seeing your TCs and your wlbs, ngl I’m jealous. I’ve always been interested in software dev, began coding since I was 11 making click bots to bot on RuneScape. In every job I’ve been at, I’ve found myself enjoying the development of tools for data pipelining more.
- Google Product Analyst, Data Science on-site experience When I was preparing for the interview I had very few resource for this position so I thought making a post about my experience would be helpful. I had 4 rounds of interview in the on-site. The team match was done before on-site for this position and had 3 people from the team interview while 1 was
- 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 Should I switch from Data Science to SWE? I did a CS undergrad. My job consists mostly of writing queries, building reports, and meeting with data stakeholders. The problem is, when I look for new DS roles (inside and out of the company), they usually require masters or phds, stats experience I don’t have, or are more analyst roles that eve
- 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
- link S386 will IMPROVE DIVERSITY & Wages in tech S386 is a fairness bill that will make all employment seeking immigrants go through the same process regardless of country birth. This means applying for work visas instead of Employment Based green card as the first step. Right now the biggest work visa aka H1b is dominated by people from backlogg
- vote I think I solved part of the dating app problem… with a new dating app… hear me out Part of the problem is that you have know idea how your profile is being perceived. You could think you’re a 6 but you’re really a 4 to everyone. It’s been studied that most women only want the top 20% of male profiles, but men (and women) don’t know what they’re doing wrong because dating apps hid
- 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
- Is a Masters in Applied Statistics worth it? I am a SWE with > 10 years experience. I currently work on ML, both on the software engineering side and modeling side. I have completed a few graduate level stats courses recently. Been thinking about switching to DS some time in the future. Wondering, is it worth it for me to continue taking
- 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
- Data Scientists, which role is next for you? What’s the future of a DS? For my fellow Data Scientists, What’s the next move in our careers? The way I see it, for an IC data scientists, these are the next options: 1) DS Manager - climb your way up in the technical and political world and get to a position of managing other data scientists. 2) Product manager - just li
- Anyone have technical insight on building a startup with a similar model as myfitnesspal? If you’re not familiar with the myfitnesspal model, they basically use users free form data to source data, at least in the early stages. E.g, a user wants to log in their food diary, that they ate a McDonald’s double cheeseburger, they look it up and it doesn’t exist in the app. So they look up and
- A pot of magic, science, and happiness research with a twist of investing knowledge I'm trying to figure out my next career move... I enjoy doing science on how magic can help people. I've been into magic tricks since a kid. I have a BS in chemistry, a UK masters in materials science (this one means nothing - no real skillz here), a UK psych degree, and about to finish a PhD in ps
- Breaking into Quantitative Finance Hey All This is a long post, if you read through it all I thank you, if not TLDR: Squandered youth, came back to success, want more, good with numbers, need insight. I have a dream of working in finance, if it were ever possible, quantitative finance. The quant firms seem to be leaders/innovators
- Math Tutoring & Test Prep for Kids and Adults too Hi All, I have a Math tutoring side hustle, I pretty much tutor grade range from second grade to college level Math.. I have over 4 years experience in tutoring I specifically enjoy helping kids build strong Math background as I find it very useful. Throughout my college days while #gig working as
- 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,
- 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
- Data Science to Software Engineering I'm a Data Scientist 2 at Microsoft, but wanting to change to SDE/MLE in the near future. I have a background in Stats, so I'm not familiar with Data Structures, System Design, and Algorithms. I use python in my everyday work. But my usage of python is limited to the field of Data Science and ML (Nu
- How to Prep for Statistics Interviews for Machine Learning SWE Positions? I have interviews coming up at a few top companies and all of them will have 1 round (I think it's only 1) that is specifically focused on testing my Machine Learning and Statistics knowledge. For general interviews I think I am able to explain what I do for work, why, tradeoffs, decisions, etc well
- How to negotiate in US tech Hello Blinders, Currently I am working out of EU, and soon I'll be moving to US Seattle. While I don't have any job offer in hand, I'll move and begin my search soon. My tech area is machine learning, computer vision, some NLP with couple of publication. I used to LC (100-ish) in past but now I ne
- vote did your visitor insurance ever pay? Checking out the community for coverage stats on visitor medical insurance coverage: Many of you have family members and relatives visiting in the US... I buy visitor coverage for parents/in laws/others every time they visit us, just to be safe. I have had multiple bad experiences with visitor ins
- Amazon Non-Technical Manager Role My takeaways from being a lurker....you gotta post your stats breakdown before you get a response Offer: Base - 109k RSU - 50k Bonus - 55k 2 main questions: 1. cost of living (COL) is 24% higher in job location where i will be workng than where i currently live. Anyone with experience negotiating
- 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
- vote Where to be pm: instacart, Roblox, robinhood, meta Tc at Amazon L6 is 550 including stock increase. 3 years at Amazon post top mba. Previously a designer. Instacart Senior pm, promised I can be manager and principal in a year but I don’t know if I can trust hiring managers who promise a lot. 600 tc with a lot more equity exposure. Company is valued
- Facebook Onsite Design: Product or Infrastructure? Interviewing for E4 position next week, unsure of which design interview to choose. During my 2 YOE I haven't ever worked with a lot of technologies that I see in prep material (Ex: Redis, Cassandra, various design patterns, etc.) let alone been in a position to design an entire system. I haven't e
- Insights on the role/interview process for data analyst at Google Hi all, I got an interview call for Manufacturing Data Analyst, Technical Infrastructure team, Sunnyvale at Google. The recruiter wants me to schedule a call with someone in the team. I want to schedule the call in such a way that I give myself enough time to prepare. I have a tech background with
- Seek career advice for next move My background is in stats. I’ve been working as a DS for more than 2 years. I’ve worked on end to end deployment of ML models in both python and Java, some light NLP problems (which can be solved using tfidf, word2vec, nothing really fancy like BERT), building data or model pipelines, and also A/B t
- vote Quant vs SWE at HFT firms I'm currently enrolled as a 2nd year PhD student at a top but non-ivy school (one of CMU, UIUC, UW Seattle, UMichigan). I'm strongly considering quitting with a Masters after this semester and I'm interviewing with several top HFT firms (including HRT and Cit. Sec.), as well as GE return offer from
- vote Differences between data roles: QR, DS, DE, RS & career advice What are the difference in both scope and comp between these roles? Quantitative Researcher Data Scientist Data Engineer Research Scientist As a Quant Researcher I spend a lot of time in R/Python for wrangling data, stats & graphs - mainly surveys - plus the occasional SQL to pull log data & some
- link Corona overhyped - stock rebound?! Drawing from sources: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-confirms-coronavirus-global-death-rate-rises-fatalities-numbers-2020-3 (mortality rate by age from chinese CDC - not sure how trustworthy) https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (supposedly pull