Tech IndustryMay 27, 2019
Cheggsnt124

Product analyst role at Uber

Anyone here have insight into the product analyst role at Uber? Looks mostly like a sql monkey role but the postings say “experience with python” - not sure if that means it requires python or if they will interview it What should compensation look like?

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Credit Karma QvcF51 May 27, 2019

SQL is the most efficient way to access data. Unless you’re published in some ML journal, you will be writing data pipelines to then plug parameters into functions (aka plugging data into ML models written by professors). Grid searching / tuning is mostly worthless, especially at a company like Uber where they have real specialists to automate such a routine task. So you need to ask yourself, do I want to work in 1st tier tech in a specialized role where I have the greatest comparative advantages (which for you probably is an applied sql/data type role) or do you want to work in smaller tech and plug data into a ML framework that you helped write but will be open source in a couple years as someone will write a better one for your use case.

Chegg snt124 OP May 27, 2019

Thanks. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. Chegg is small enough where I’ve had flexibility in the type of work/experience I’m exposed to. I’ve also applied to a few start ups and am continuing to think about what’s best for my career

Uber God. May 27, 2019

Most teams you will spend more time in SQL than python yes but you will use both. You need to have business and product sense more than anything. And those things will be tested just as much as sql or python. Also note that analyst roles get flooded with apps. It’s actually pretty hard to get in just because of the numbers game.

Chegg snt124 OP May 27, 2019

Ty for response. Any idea what the pay band looks like for this role?

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abbb4 May 28, 2019

What do you intend on using Python for?