Thursday, November 30, 2017

Interview Prep - Comments from Communication Professor

Sharing some of the tips on how to give the interview:

Notes on how to improve:

Talk more about how you would help the company in the cover letter.

I have applied to this position because with my skills and background in Electrical Engineering, MBA, MS Information System, long term Career Development Plan in Big Data / Data Science I can contribute a lot in this role.

Subjects learned during electrical engineering (Control System, Optimization, Signal Processing) gives me analytical thinking and understanding of Engineering Maths needed for Machine Learning in Data Science. While an International MBA in Israel gives me exposure on how different areas of business are connected. Finally, in my current Masters in IS I have taken courses on SQL Server Business Intelligence, Database Admin-Design-Security. Hence with these skills I can contribute and make the company grow. 

For some of the skills needed for this role I have equivalent experience in other Databases and Quantitative Techniques. Moreover, I have a robust Professional development plan to keep myself updated and ready for new technologies where I am taking courses such as - Coursera Washington University, AWS on Udemy.

In my last roles, I have used R/Python/VBA/Bash to automated around 50% of the processes from excel and enhanced Analytics insights by 30-50% using Visualization from new Data Science libraries. In my last internships I have learned implemented projects on Pandas, Matplot, Scikit in Python, Mapreduce on MongoGB, Git Blaze for development.



Asking about a question and telling you know more things
Send email about a question that you missed in the interview
Hand gestures - put hand on table
Straight back sitting gestures
More energy while I sit and in tone
No fluff words like energy, motivated etc
More real example based on experience:
Eye contact with all four not just the one
Hand gestures, Hands on table
Sit with straight back
More examples
Such as why would we give because international experience, professional deb plan,
Indian experience, Indian experience
Points from each degree anlytical system and math, business culture startups, database
Technical steps will take while you open offices
Tech changesand cycle of things are smaller in IT
How will you contribute
Something didn't mention on resume

Comments:

WHY have you applied for this job?
I am applying for this job BECAUSE with the analytical and mathematical skills learned from engineering, business and financial concepts from MBA and Database knowledge from MS in Information System; I am equipped to create models to increase speed, an accuracy of the financial data that is migrated to big data infra for analytics and machine learning.

“However, I would like to tell you something about myself that makes me fit for this role. My professional development plan for the next five years involves online certification in big data analytics from Udemy and Course-era to help me optimize the architectural and quantitative models used in your data.” 

Incorporate the words “for example, however, and because”: Problem/Action taken/Results
In my last internship in Credifi - (A big data for real estate company); I wrote several map-reduce queries on Mongo DB and these skills can be applied to the role. I increased the speed by over 50% by migrating from R to Python and changing the MapReduce queries at the server level (from client level).

Furthermore, the skills and knowledge of the three different degrees have given me a combination of tools to work with such as Control Engineering, Signal processing gave me insights in application of Engineering Mathematics; Business courses help me do valuations using concepts of corporate finance and project finance; and finally Information system degree equips me knowledge about latest Business Intelligence tools -OLAP Cubes. These skills are directly applicable to optimize the data design for seem lees design of different analytical and machine learning models. 
 
I will make proper eye contact with everyone.  Make my arms rest on the table at least some of the time. Moving forward in your seat and looking at everyone this way adds energy and emphasis to what you say.  

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

CS high ranked but low tuition

Bufflo liek 20k
Stony brook 20k
Housten under 20k
Tamu under 20k
UFL 22k


TAMU, Stony Brook, UT Austin, Purdue and Utah: all have MS CS in less than 20k per year... these are the best colleges if someone has to spend money and each has placement well above 80k per annum

Monday, October 24, 2016

Learning Google Tools

Some online tutorials for Google tools:

Piper Wired.com article:
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/

Critique code review: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Googles-internal-code-review-policy-process

Some questions answered on Quora:
https://www.quora.com/What-version-control-system-does-Google-use-and-why

Youtube Videos by Google on Piper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Learning Quant Trading Low Freq

Programming in VBA / R.
Balancing things to make sure the trader or customer gets features simplicity and speed 

Friday, December 11, 2015

Risk Analytics on Big Data - Python, R, SQL and MongolDB

Currently Working on Python (Panda, Numpy), MongoDB(NOSQL, Map Reduce, Pipe-lining) for Risk Analytics on Big Data.