How To Prepare For Interviews

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How to prepare for

interviews
Contents
• Why resumes don’t get selected
• Bad Resume to good Resume
• What topic to prepare
• What does a recruiter expect from you
• How to start an interview
• What should you do now?
Why resume don’t get selected?
Your Resume should look like a data scientists resume
Sometime you have to mould your resume based on keywords in the job
description
If you have non data science experience make sure that’s not the first thing that
recruiter should read
Spend time in making sure that the projects you have done is well expressed in
the resume. If possible get it reviewed with a Data Scientist
Be prepare to invest time in tuning and changing your resume based on the job
description.
What topics to prepare

1. Machine Learning algorithms

2. Basic Statistical Concepts

3. Python – Specially Data cleaning activities


4. SQL
5. Working with data in cloud
What is recruiter expecting from you

1. They want you to do well. No one wants to waste time if they don’t feel you are a potential
match for them.
2. Are you good enough to work in their organization?

3. What kind of project are you involved in your past organizations and projects?
4. Have you been involved in handling large volumes of data?
5. Have you productionized your ML model? If not then what was the outcome of your project?
6. What value/impact did your data science project create? Why should I buy your model. What’s
in it for me?
7. Can you explain me the value ML will add given I am unaware of Data Science. Why should I
trust your algorithm
How to start an interview

The initial few minutes of every interview is vital. Just give a quick introduction about yourself and
transition your conversation from your personal information to your data science project.

Talk 2-3 minutes about your project. Explaining the following three things
1. Objective of the project
2. Your role in the project
3. Challenges you faced in the project

While you talk about your project please make sure you are mentioning the challenges faced by
you while working in the project and also how you overcame them

Even if you think that the projects that you have done is not challenging and interviewer looks
disinterested talk about your data cleaning skills and express your passion by talking how you
made sure you eliminated the problem of messy data, unstructured data, data drift.
What should you do now

Get yourself a medium subscription


Maintain a short notes of all the algorithms you know
Practice two challenging SQL questions everyday
Write a blog every week
Keep building your LinkedIn profile
Build an E2E project - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MpF9HENQjDo&list=PL2zq7klxX5ASFejJj80ob9ZAnBHdz5O1t

Document your project and Presentation


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