Any tips for data analyst/ data scientist interviews at Microsoft.. what skills do they test on? What team are hiring?
Why do you want to leave Expedia? I heard their culture is better than msft and their pay is similar to msft
I would expect those to be quite different roles.
I was at the AI conference a couple weeks ago when an engineer asked someone there how he could look into a data scientist role. The person told him “Oh we are very selective and no one will be considered without a PhD. It’s really tough to land one of our data scientist roles.”
This is more for Microsoft Research. At the end of the conference, they had a panel specifically for becoming a data scientist at Microsoft and none of the panelists had PhDs.
SQL, HiveQL, Scope studio. Depends on what team you go to. I think SPI (Xbox) is hiring but unless you are senior you will probably only get a contract role.
Doesn’t MS hire full time for these roles? I have an MBA with 4 years of experience... what level should I be targeting?
It varies by team but it is more about what you know. If those 4 years of experience are in data science you should target a 62 but be ready to settle for a 60 (might be better to come in low anyways so you can overperform your level) I do know plenty of highly experienced data scientist contractors who took the role just to get their foot in the door, learn the Microsoft specific tech, and then get apply for a FTE role
Microsoft's definition of data scientist in many teams is odd... My team mates are SQL junkies called data scientists. I probably will leave my team soon since I am forgetting ML and statistics here.
Depends on team, Be prepared for deep theoritical questions on algorithms. The expectation for a data scientist is to write white papers on business applications of algorithms/technique. More credit if you find novel techniques but not expected. Sql junkies are being converted to data analysts/ data engineer..
Check out interviewquery.com. Pretty helpful solutions.
I've used it for a few months now and it's actually a gold mine of good SQL and product DS interview questions.
Depends on the team. I am a data and applied scientist without even a master's degree. Questions will be on coding, statistics, machine learning , deep learning ,nlp / image processing. I never ask data extraction questions on adla/pyspark during interview.
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