How do you prepare for Data Science interviews in Tech? What are the components of the interview and what resources should you use? What do Hiring Managers look for in a candidate? And what's the point of behavioral questions in a data science interview?

Find out answers to all of the above and more in this discussion with Nick Singh, Author of Ace the Data Science interview and former data scientist and engineer at Google and Facebook, and Roy Keyes, Author of Hiring Data Scientists and ML Engineers.

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Nick's book Ace the Data Science interview: https://www.acethedatascienceinterview.com/

Roy's book Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers: https://dshiring.com/

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