Woohoo - great job of writing this up, Mikhail! :) -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Mikhail Popov <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy! I'm excited to share an in-depth breakdown of how Discovery hires > data scientists, now posted on Wikimedia Blog[1]. It covers how we > (responsibly) wrote an inclusive job description to attract diverse > candidates, the approach to designing the take-home task, and our approach > to technical interview questions. > > Some of you may already be privy to Discovery's process for hiring me and > Chelsy, but I wanted to share this link anyway. I think there are lessons > that hiring managers can learn for other technical positions (not just > those in DataSci) because parts of the post were motivated by negative > interviewing experiences I and others have had when applying for tech jobs. > > I've gotten positive comments from folks at other organizations who are > finding the post informative and useful as they think about their hiring > process. I mention this because I'm glad to be working at an organization > where sharing knowledge and insights with the outside world is not just > allowed, but encouraged. > > Cheers, > Mikhail > > [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/02/hiring-data-scientist/ > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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