Data Science Career Guide - Interview Preparation (Udemy.com)
Prepare for your Data Science Interview with this full guide on a career in Data Science including practice questions!
Created by: Jose Portilla
Last updated September 2019
What you will learn
- Create a great data science resume!
- Understand various positions and titles available in the data science ecosystem.
- Get practice with probability and statistics interview questions.
- Build an understanding of good experiment design.
- Get practice with SQL interview questions.
How it compares
Against the other 461 rated Udemy courses in Data Science on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 85% of them
- Reviews2,740#79 of 462 by number of reviews
- Length4 hoursshorter than 72% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 92% of them
Course Description
According to Glassdoor, a career as a Data Scientist is the best job in America! With an average base salary of over $120,000, not only do Data Scientists earn fantastic compensation, but they also get to work on some of the world's most interesting problems! Data Scientist positions are also rated as having some of the best work-life balances by Glassdoor. Companies are in dire need of filling out this unique role, and you can use this course to help you rock your Data Scientist Interview!
This course is designed to be the ultimate resource for getting a career as a Data Scientist. We'll start off with an general overview of the field and discuss multiple career paths, including Product Analyst, Data Engineering, Data Scientist, and many more. You'll understand the various opportunities available and the best way to pursue each of them. The course touches upon a wide variety of topics, including questions on probability, statistics, machine learning, product metrics, example data sets, A/B testing, market analysis, and much more!
The course will be full of real questions sourced from employees working at some of the world's top technology companies, including Amazon, Square, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, AirBnb and more!
The course contains real questions with fully detailed explanations and solutions. Not only is the course designed for candidates to achieve a full understanding of possible interview questions, but also for recruiters to learn about what to look for in each question response. For questions requiring coded solutions, fully commented code examples will be shown for both Python and R. This way you can focus on understanding the code in a programming language you're already familiar with, instead of worrying about syntax!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
2,740 Reviews
Jose Portilla
Jose Marcial Portilla has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and years of experience as a professional instructor and trainer for Data Science, Machine Learning and Python Programming. He has publications and patents in various fields such as microfluidics, materials science, and data science. Over the course of his career he has developed a skill set in analyzing data and he hopes to use his experience in teaching and data science to help other people learn the power of programming, the ability to analyze data, and the skills needed to present the data in clear and beautiful visualizations. Currently he works as the Head of Data Science for Pierian Training and provides in-person data science and python programming training courses to employees working at top companies, including General Electric, Cigna, SalesForce, Starbucks, McKinsey and many more. Feel free to check out the website link to find out more information about training offerings.
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Reviews
By Jose Lomeli on 4/10/2022
Questions were a little bit hard for me, but they are helping me to become better on this fields, also the resources have a list of topics to do more studying, and of course, Jose is an excellent instructor, he explains very clear.
By A K on 4/7/2022
life saving. 1) saved me so much money on consultancy and career coaching 2) cute DS and a teacher attitude to avoid bias in opinion and trying to be neutral 3) it was hard to find ds specific prep questions bcz it's relatively new position and leetcode def lost me! this one is very structured and exactly targeting the ds industry position. exactly same structured procedure as i have been informed. 4) the lecturer has been very transparent, honest, and knowledgeable about exactly what they want and will deliver. 5) overall better than most of the sources i got from various portals (lecture, network, online).
By Goh Yong Yu Jeffrey on 12/11/2021
I am in the middle of the course now. Its rare to see a course that focus on tackling interview questions even if you can practice free coding questions on leetcode and etc. For me I am able to pick up the material quickly as I make preparation to practice probability and statistics before attempting this course. However the course material are too short to me even though the main focus is to tackle interview questions.
By B. Student on 8/14/2021
good practice. the explanations for some of the probability questions left me with the impression they were pulled off the internet, but they were good questions to practice on, and I have quire a bit of experience. good way to get into shape if you haven't been out interviewing for a while.
By Hadrien Hours on 11/15/2020
The statistics and probability parts are quite nice. Although very basic in explaining answers they give good food for thoughts and good pointers on where to work on.
The SQL part is, imho, very very basic. Exercises given are really too simple to be realistic. No question regarding different types of JOIN. No optimization even mentioned.
The ML part is, to me, sometimes a bit short in its explanations. Although the course is aimed at staying high level. RF explanation for example is misleading at best.
I did not go through all the parts for coding but, for the stock exercises, the solution given does not even answer the question...
Eventually, some reference for the experiment part in the guidebook do not seem to match. Or I open the wrong link but, where does the k-arm bandit comes from?
Overall, I liked it because in 1-2 mins one can check if (s)he feels comfortable with the domain touched by the question and then decides very fast if some studying / strengthening is needed. But the solutions were sometimes not of big use for me.
By Ali Khodadadi on 11/1/2020
I bought this course based on other courses the instructor has (SQL). I guess it raised my expectations.
The answer to the question is short, and the reference book links are mostly from Wikipedia...
Dude, If I wanted to get the answers, I would have googled them myself.
I was looking for more organized sources or explanations for the answers...
By Oleksandr Churiumov on 10/22/2020
This is a very good course that goes through the most common types of questions you can expect in a data science job interview. Definitely worth checking out!
By Qilin Wang on 10/14/2020
Please get rid of the filler material. At least 12 sec wasted on every 1 min video.
By Ruben Rosa on 9/27/2020
Simple and straight to the point
By Xunan on 9/24/2020
totally not intuitive
By Jessy Raihana on 9/18/2020
Good bird's eye view of the DS Interview
By Hu J on 9/17/2020
Clear and brief.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100









