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They asked a lot of questions about my take-home project; in particular wanted to know about the reasons that I took the approach that I did. I could tell they were coming more from a statistical and economics background for the most part; while I'm more of an engineering and machine-learning hacker type standpoint. They also had a lot of "ambiguous" questions; by that, I mean questions about ambiguous business situations I might encounter in this position. Wanted to know how well I would do with ambiguous questions I might get from business leaders.
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Pluralsight

2.9
Mar 5, 2017

They asked a lot of questions about my take-home project; in particular wanted to know about the reasons that I took the approach that I did. I could tell they were coming more from a statistical and economics background for the most part; while I'm more of an engineering and machine-learning hacker type standpoint. They also had a lot of "ambiguous" questions; by that, I mean questions about ambiguous business situations I might encounter in this position. Wanted to know how well I would do with ambiguous questions I might get from business leaders.

1. the ORDER BY command in SQL is automatically set in what format if you didn't set it? Ascending or Descending? Answer: Ascending 2. When you want to delete or add a column of a table in a database, what command you will use? Answer: ALTER 3. this question about about LEFT JOIN, they ask what command you want to use if you want to keep all the info of the left table? Answer: left join 4. You want to combine two column after removing two duplicates, use UNION or UNION ALL? Answer: UNION
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Oct 26, 2018

1. the ORDER BY command in SQL is automatically set in what format if you didn't set it? Ascending or Descending? Answer: Ascending 2. When you want to delete or add a column of a table in a database, what command you will use? Answer: ALTER 3. this question about about LEFT JOIN, they ask what command you want to use if you want to keep all the info of the left table? Answer: left join 4. You want to combine two column after removing two duplicates, use UNION or UNION ALL? Answer: UNION

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