Alex Mukasyan Reading 02 Response
Over the past summer I interned at a big data company up as a data engineer. When I applied for the internship the skills which I listed most prominently on my resume were my ability to learn and efficiently use python packages as well as write complex SQL scripts. When I came in for the interview I was sat down in the office of the CEO with the CEO as well as the head data scientist. The interview started with general questions about the classes I had taken, how I perform when working with groups, what projects I had worked on and the problems and solutions I found and came up with for those projects. After 15-20min of that I was thrown for a loop when I was asked if I would be ok with doing some technical questions to which I agreed. Just like the stories in Why is hiring broken? It starts at the whiteboard. I was not given a computer to do these problems, but was given a whiteboard wall and a dry erase marker. Fortunately for me, the questions asked weren't about algori...