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5 Skills Companies Look For in Data Science Candidates + 5 Project Ideas

Pretty unsurprising for today’s data-driven era, the role of a data scientist has evolved into one of the most coveted positions in the job market. What qualities and data science skills do companies seek in candidates? This is quickly answered by the image below. Skill #1: Strong Analytical Skills This one’s pretty obvious! In this case, I don’t mean being good at programming or coding. What I mean is being analytical. It means dissecting problems, approaching them methodically and l…
5 Skills Companies Look For in Data Science Candidates + 5 Project Ideas

Meta Data Science, Analytics Screening: Interview Cheat Sheet

Hi, I’m Priscilla — a data scientist, previously at Yelp, now at TikTok. I participated in Meta Data Science, Analytics interview process in the past recruiting cycle. Once you pass the recruiter phone screening, the first technical screen is designed to test your technical aptitude in 45 minutes. This is the critical round that will determine whether or not you move forward to an onsite. In this article, I will provide a handy cheat sheet with frameworks and examples for your upcoming …
Meta Data Science, Analytics Screening: Interview Cheat Sheet

What it takes to be a Senior IC at Meta

At Meta, senior individual contributors (ICs) are an important part of how we think about growing careers and building effective organizations in data science and data engineering. Senior ICs have made major contributions in analytics, including on past topics we’ve covered in this blog: Sending fewer notifications, to improve user experience and visitation Extending product-market fit measurement and data frameworks across the company Using experimentation meta-analysis to under…
What it takes to be a Senior IC at Meta