{"id":71330,"date":"2020-07-08T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71330"},"modified":"2020-07-08T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:49:44","slug":"guides-on-how-to-ace-your-next-data-science-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/08\/guides-on-how-to-ace-your-next-data-science-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Guides on how to ace your next data science interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">For current and\/or future data scientists out there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewquery.com\/blog-the-amazon-data-analyst-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71331\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InterviewQueryBlog-July2020.jpg\" alt=\"Guides on how to ace your next data science interview\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InterviewQueryBlog-July2020.jpg 912w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InterviewQueryBlog-July2020-150x102.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InterviewQueryBlog-July2020-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"required-skills\"><strong>Required Skills<br \/>\n<\/strong>The data analyst position at Amazon requires specialization in knowledge and experience. Therefore, Amazon only hires highly qualified candidates with at least 3 years of industry experience working with data analysis, data modelling, advanced business analytics, and other related fields.<\/p>\n<p>Other basic qualifications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor&#8217;s or Masters (PhD prefered) in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, math, statistics, computer science, Operation Research, or related fields.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with scripting, querying, and data warehouse tools, such as Linux, R, SAS, and\/or SQL<\/li>\n<li>Extensive experience in programming languages like Python, R, \u00a0or Java.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with querying relational databases (SQL) and hands-on experience with processing, optimization, and analysis of large data set.<\/li>\n<li>Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Macros and Access.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in identifying metrics and KPIs, gathering data, experimentation, and presenting decks, dashboards, and scorecards.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with business intelligence and automated self-service reporting tools such as Tableau, Quicksight, Microsoft Power BI, or Cognos.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with AWS services such as RDS, SQS, or Lambda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: For current and\/or future data scientists out there. Required Skills The data analyst position at Amazon requires specialization in knowledge and experience. Therefore, Amazon only hires highly qualified candidates with at least 3 years of industry experience working with data analysis, data modelling, advanced business analytics, and other related fields. Other basic qualifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,435,387,174,115,302,45,112,298,306,82,163,216,204,195,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-analytics","category-business","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-data-related-items","category-economics","category-engineering","category-mathematics","category-microsoft","category-programming","category-tools","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71333,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71330\/revisions\/71333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}