I’ve found standardized questions to be useless. I’ve found the best people by reading their cvs carefully. Then reading whatever published work they have. Then asking them to talk about that. If that goes well then I describe the work the team is doing and ask them their thoughts. If I really need validation I have a data problem I send them and ask them to send it back. (I don’t ask people to code in front of me - that’s ridiculous and tells me nothing) The standard problem Id ask was to figure out how to calculate something I describe only conceptually, and then give them a data set to do it on. Most mediocre so called data scientists will throw a bunch of Python libraries at the data and not even think about what was asked. This, sadly, is the state of my profession after 10 years of “boot camps “ and incursions from other disciplines.
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