From the course: 15 Tips for Landing a Data Science Job (2020)

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From the course: 15 Tips for Landing a Data Science Job (2020)

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Take-home assignments

- Do you thrive on time pressure? Well, in the data science interview process, they are often timed take them data science challenges. While it may seem intimidating, there are a couple of things you can do to improve your performance. In this video, I will share with you some essentials of how you can perform at your best. So to get started, I want to first help you understand what data science take home challenges are. Many companies often send you a sample data science problem to work on. They usually give you a couple hours to do this, see how much you can do, and send your answer. The theory is that the challenge resembles actual work you, the candidate, will be doing on the job. What this could mean is several things. You could have messy data, expect to do some exploratory analysis, which may be nontrivial. Also, their instructions may be vague. This is probably intentional. This can mean you will have to make…

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