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Working data scientist here. As many have said, this is, effectively a Kaggle challenge. I mean honestly at this point, I don't care, at all, how well someone can predict anything to be a data scientist - there is very little correlation between that and how good of a data scientist they are.

Tools to hire data scientists and going to continually fail until they realize that the interesting, hard part of being a data scientist is closer akin to a business lead (which can't really be tested in 60 minutes).

Concrete feedback:

- You ask for writing and descriptions on why a model was chosen, why features matters - are you grading this automatically? That would be a feat.

- The task is waaay to easy (even if you do believe there is a market for identifying people who can predict well).

- Python is overly limited. Why not SQL or R?




Disclosure: Got a preview of this product, my opinions only.

> You ask for writing and descriptions on why a model was chosen, why features matters - are you grading this automatically? That would be a feat.

Grading is apparently not automatic, which is good as I am not a fan of the Kaggle approach in this demo.

> The task is waaay to easy (even if you do believe there is a market for identifying people who can predict well)

You'd be very surprised about how candidates can respond to these types of questions!

> Python is overly limited. Why not SQL or R?

The full product allows Python, R, and Julia, with popular packages preinstalled for Python/R.


Isn't the most important part weeding out the most unqualified applicants? For that purpose such a test might be fine.


Thank you for the feedback!

- We are not automatically grading it. We have learned that in the past that trying to automatically grade candidates on such challenges biases their approach, which breaks the point of a good data science challenge.

- that's good to know. we are not really focusing on the final outcome but how creatively a candidate can go about the problem. the dataset allows for some good amount of creativity.

- Ah. can you elaborate what you mean by overly limited? We do support R.


What is a business lead?




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