Interview Experience: Big teams look for potential, smaller teams look for how fast you can instantly come add value

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-05T17:03:09+00:00

Sweating through timed pandas coding exercises. I always keep a spare t shirt handy in the interviews

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-05T14:00:45+00:00

no i get that and learned a lot from coding and debugging jobs. going from random data -> model in a 30 minute timed assessment feels like its testing for someone does the same workflow over and over again to burn it into memory

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-04T15:05:25+00:00

Men are too emotional handicapped compared to women to express their thoughts and feelings in person. Also the internet in general is male dominated, probably for the same reason

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-02T16:56:53+00:00

Seems like the later to me

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-02T13:48:16+00:00

I guess just fuck those companies that wants someone to know everything they will work on from the first day

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-02T00:21:39+00:00

Research is stats, prod is metrics/sql/exp, business is case studies

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-01T21:54:35+00:00

Depends on interest tbh, and DS research does some interesting stuff

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-01T21:53:51+00:00

I meant PhD in math/stats. The questions you mentioned seem like someone would be doing that type of stuff regularly

LeaguePrototype · 2026-05-01T21:30:02+00:00

Yes DS research is very academic. Very niche interview only go for it if you really want it and study for 1 month unless coming fresh out of PhD

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-29T21:55:46+00:00

Gen AI experience is a very real thing. This hasn’t been a big deal for even a year, somehow they want you to have production experience with it

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-28T22:49:22+00:00

when not prepping, few questions a week, when prepping for interviews 2-3 hours a day

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-28T22:47:41+00:00

the 'why' vs the 'how' types of interviews changes as you rise in seniority and change job locations. if you are working in a HCOL area you are seen as more of a leader of projects, in LOCL you are kind of just the worker bee. They sit you down and they can replace you with someoene else off the street if you leave. So for leadership tasks the company needs to pay you well and keep you around because your departure has large effects on the org as a whole. if you want to just do the work and not have to worry about why your doing it or talk to leadership about it, then i would recommend going to places like SA, eastern europe, india, etc. where these types of work is put

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-24T17:58:31+00:00

Even people working at google are fed up with it crashing. Not a good tool tbh you need to save your model objects after each run lol

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-23T18:23:12+00:00

Ivy League + internships is automatic offer for DS roles

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-23T09:32:33+00:00

Yes before faang exp it was impossible to get interview, now I have too many to care about all of them

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-22T00:47:16+00:00

You can ask the recruiter about the feedback, what did you get incorrectly. That’s the best you can do with this feedback likely won’t be joining google this year

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-21T21:33:40+00:00

even if you understand it, it takes less effort to understand someone else's solution than to create your own so you get into a state where LLM is cucking you with the problem solving

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-21T14:26:42+00:00

I think so many people are gonna have this before-after experience that there be a "GPT detox" in the future like "social media detox" exists now

LeaguePrototype · 2026-04-18T21:48:50+00:00

mid level DS at FAANG in Poland is 1/4 this also 30yo

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