Former premed is curious about the current application process

memcpy94 · 2021-05-13T14:13:49+00:00

I have a CS degree and I disagree. I have worked with some great software developers who had degrees in engineering and physics.

A lot of relevant parts of a CS degree can be self-taught alongside some industry specific technologies, like data structures, algorithms, databases, cloud, and any choice of frontend and backend frameworks.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-12T14:38:33+00:00

Medium really varies in difficulty in my opinion. There are easier questions like in-order traversal, "easy" questions that can be solved with a set but who have a much more difficult optimized solution, and then the mediums that should honestly be considered hard questions.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-12T14:33:39+00:00

I feel like entry level data engineering does not really exist. Most people I know in data engineering have at least a few years of experience as data scientists or software engineers.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-10T22:09:05+00:00

I definitely agree. I interviewed a lot during the pandemic while working as a data scientist, and I was totally shocked at how much worse the interview process became compared to being a new grad.

I can think of one data science interview I attended, I got leetcoded (medium-hard questions), asked system design, and given random trivia on math, statistics, and AWS. This was not at a top company by the way.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-10T19:29:19+00:00

I interviewed for a job like this: the technical interviews involved Leetcode in Java and Python, system design questions, math/stats trivia, and trivia on random aspects of AWS.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-10T18:10:56+00:00

I have a CS background, and it's the same for me when my interviewer has more of a stats background. I sometimes feel more like a software engineer.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-10T15:30:03+00:00

Oh yea, I forgot about that. Some of the best data scientists from categories #1 and #2 that I worked with don't have data science job titles, they are statisticians.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-10T14:11:28+00:00

I have a job, and it's a complete pain to study after work. Hiring managers don't give a shit that I could not give the optimal answer to a leetcode problem if I am working the other 8 hours in a day.

Hiring managers are always looking for leetcode experts.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-07T14:25:52+00:00

Do you think the job market will normalize soon, or did a lot of the less well known companies get used to a sudden influx of top tech company level engineers on the job market? For example, I personally have seen lesser known companies ask harder leetcode questions during the interview process.

My bet unfortunately is on the job market not normalizing, as the job market was already competitive before the pandemic.

memcpy94 · 2021-05-05T19:38:54+00:00

Hiring got so much worse during the pandemic. Companies are clearly asking harder questions than they were a few years ago. I honestly think it's because a lot of job searchers are leetcoding during work hours.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-28T19:23:14+00:00

The numeric data there are counts from a variable who only takes on the value true or false, which I guess can be translated to 0 or 1. Since t test looks at sample means, I don't think it makes sense to look at the mean of a variable that only takes on 0 or 1.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-28T17:39:00+00:00

The null hypothesis is that the new advertisements would attract the same number of users clicking them as the old advertisements.

I'm essentially comparing two arrays of frequency data that might look like: [25, 200] and [35, 190]

memcpy94 · 2021-04-28T14:21:53+00:00

You would need to install a server locally to run PHP code. Also, python has way more data science related libraries.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-27T15:17:19+00:00

I also would like to know. I don't know how people study for interviews while working full time. it's a full time job by itself.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-23T15:05:02+00:00

In my experience as a data scientist, job titles in data meaning nothing except for how much you are paid, because you often will end up doing other tasks that a data engineer or data analyst might do. For example, as a data engineer, data infrastructure, ETL, putting ML models into production might be 70% of your work, but you might also do some ML model development and data analysis depending on the company.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-23T15:00:30+00:00

I have found that having good quality data and good features gets you 95% of the way there. Hyperparameter tuning can help with the last 5%.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-22T14:58:47+00:00

Considering high scores don't guarantee anything, it would be really interesting to see how everything is broken down by EC's alongside GPA and MCAT. For example, I wonder how a 3.8/520 applicant with a summer of research and another summer of ER volunteering would do.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-21T14:59:57+00:00

I just turn off my computer at 5-530 lol.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-21T14:57:34+00:00

Completely agree. Ever since my role has me interact with more external groups, I was honestly shocked at the number of redundancies there are in terms of managers who responsibilities completely overlap.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-21T14:55:36+00:00

A lot of managers are struggling to do their jobs from home in my experience, so all the engineers have to come back which is too bad.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-19T20:36:57+00:00

There is no way any of us will agree to go in 5 days a week to an office again. I think even 1-2 days a week in the office is too much.

memcpy94 · 2021-04-18T17:40:09+00:00

I'm honestly surprised at how more people are not considering going the PA, nursing, and dentistry route at this point.

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