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On this note: My team and I at Analytical Flavor Systems[1] wrote a blog post on how we go about hiring data science interns[2]. It's heavier on the technical details, and suffers from less... romanticism....

[1] www.gastrograph.com

[2] https://gastrograph.com/blogs/gastronexus/interviewing-data-...

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There is definitely more technical detail and statistical process in that post, although I strongly question the use of a hiring test that intricate and time consuming for an internship.

It's a 3 month paid internship, and 99% of the students have been from Princeton.

Did you see the work we linked to? That's intern work here - we treat our interns as full members of the team, and they've delivered.

So you had 100 interns and 99 of them were from Princeton??

That's now how percentages work....

I'm really curious what numerator and denominator you have in mind, then... are you somehow using fractional internship units? :)

(Ordinarily this would be off topic, but....)

Yes it does, because I'm pretty sure your company has not hired 200+ interns.

That is very true. However, I'm all for these kinds of tests in general. I read the assignment (and after lol'ing at the specification of methods), found it reasonably interesting. I reckon it would take me an hour or two to complete (as long as I didn't get sucked in to exploring the data) :).

Then again, I'm not looking for an internship.

You should consider applying for a full time position ;)

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