Apr 2, 2024 |

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This ONE THING is what hiring managers are looking for🤯

Data Science Hangout with Jamie Warner, Managing Director at Plymouth Rock Assurance.

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First, in general hiring, the number one thing I look for is curiosity. If you already know a programming language, you can learn any other language if you're curious. But I cannot necessarily teach you to be the kind of person that sees a weird pattern in the data and wants to know more. I think that that's kind of like, you're either that kind of person or you're like, oh man, there's a weird pattern, I wish it would go away.

And so that's really what I look for when I hire, especially for data scientists, is the drive to understand the why of what they're seeing and that test and learn kind of interest.

But I cannot necessarily teach you to be the kind of person that sees a weird pattern in the data and wants to know more.