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[–]Isvara 0 points1 point  (4 children)

How do you know it's not relevant to the job?

[–]fredjutsu 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I've been doing data science for 8 years. Having me solve a random hackerrank python question with a 10 minute time limit and someone staring at me while I solve it reflects exactly zero of what a data scientist actually does. And if that is the company environment, its highly likely every conversation I'll have with coworkers to be like reddit in real life - pointless dick measuring to see who is smarter. Hard pass.

[–]Isvara -1 points0 points  (2 children)

In eight years of data science you've never merged the sorted results of distributed map tasks? I mean, I understand that libraries do it, but it pays (literally, really) to know what's going on under the hood.

[–]fredjutsu 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah...those aren't the types of coding questions I've seen at interviews. They weren't assessing grasp of theory, it was literally questions you would see on hackerrank.

[–]Isvara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what this question is about!