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		nicoburns on Dec 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data... Set someone the interviewee a programming task. This is pretty standard for developer jobs, and is absolutely fantastic for people without work experience (as it gives them another way to probe their skill).

huac on Dec 22, 2016 [–]

I mean, I did a bunch of take-home tests. But those were focused on doing an analysis on some dataset, focused on answering a question.

Should data scientists be expected to do more than that? Or are you expecting a certain level of code quality from them? Within a 48 hour time window?

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