[R] Interview questions?
Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are more about how clever the interviewer questions are than how to get the best person for the job. I would consider myself a mid-level R programmer so this would also be a great opportunity to learn more and be able to hire a great candidate. I am perfectly happy to get a reference, book title or URL. Not looking for anyone to do my work for me! Best to all, Happy New Year, KW __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Interview questions?
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Keith S Weintraub wrote: I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. Keith, You're the best person to determine the questions to ask because you're the only one who knows what you want this programmer to do. What are the criteria by which the coder's efforts will be judged successful? Ergo, make a list of what the hired coder is expected to do, then write questions that ask about experience with this type of application, how best to approach designing the application, and what other languages and applications have been developed. Those are just spur-of-the-moment ideas but they could get you thinking productively. Rich __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Interview questions?
1. What have they done in the way of R package development? If they've done that, then you can review packages they've worked on and ask questions about that (the package development process as well as the documentation they wrote) to see if that's of sufficient quality. 2. What do they do to assure they produce trustworthy code? [Hint: The least they need to be doing, I think, is writing good examples on a package documentation file that stop if they do not get the right answer -- unit tests. Anyone not doing that is a hack, not a professional.] 3. Any questions about their knowledge of statistics as applied in your particular kinds of applications. 4. Their search strategies for finding other literature relevant to R code development. [Caveat: I'm the lead author of the sos package including its vignette. For me, it's the fastest literature search for anything statistical available anywhere: In seconds, you can search all the packages on CRAN and a few others for matches to your search term AND get the results sorted by package, not by help page. If what you want is there, it's easy and quick to download it, try it, ... .] Hope this helps. Spencer Graves On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are more about how clever the interviewer questions are than how to get the best person for the job. I would consider myself a mid-level R programmer so this would also be a great opportunity to learn more and be able to hire a great candidate. I am perfectly happy to get a reference, book title or URL. Not looking for anyone to do my work for me! Best to all, Happy New Year, KW __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Interview questions?
Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R culture they are, and perhaps also tell you if their opinions of a good programmer concur with yours... On 11 Jan 2015 16:49, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are more about how clever the interviewer questions are than how to get the best person for the job. I would consider myself a mid-level R programmer so this would also be a great opportunity to learn more and be able to hire a great candidate. I am perfectly happy to get a reference, book title or URL. Not looking for anyone to do my work for me! Best to all, Happy New Year, KW __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Interview questions?
Here is a question that I might ask. What are the alternatives to R and how does R compare? That is, for what class of problems is R the best tool around? Bob On 1/11/2015 1:16 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R culture they are, and perhaps also tell you if their opinions of a good programmer concur with yours... On 11 Jan 2015 16:49, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are more about how clever the interviewer questions are than how to get the best person for the job. I would consider myself a mid-level R programmer so this would also be a great opportunity to learn more and be able to hire a great candidate. I am perfectly happy to get a reference, book title or URL. Not looking for anyone to do my work for me! Best to all, Happy New Year, KW __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
