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Pros

This book contains useful information about modeling, statistic, python, and sql. It also offers a very quick overview of all the topics which are important to know during phone screens.

The book also encourages and guides you to go above and beyond for your interviews. It pretty much applies to anyone going into data science, so that means people who are going to be machine learning engineers at google or a blackrock quant trader you...  Read More

This book helps you build the broad, upper part of the t-shaped knowledge base you absolutely need before digging deep into some vertical specialization. The contents are categorized in each chapter with the fundamental concepts and then interview que...  Read More

It prepares you quite well. He helps us to come out of traditional technical mindset for job hunting and tries to fit us into marketing mindset. Nuance.



Cons

This is for an experienced data scientist (not analyst) the background on topics is not nearly enough to explain them leaving the average reader confused and discouraged. The sample questions have solutions that are super rushed and hard to understand...  Read More

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Quality


This is the best data science interview preparation book.


The questions are real examples from company interview questions and the solutions provide great frameworks for solving the problems.


It highlights aspects of the content that are often easy to overlook.


Good for prepping faang, tech, and also quant jobs as well.

Price


I think that's the greatest value in this book.

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Added note: i also had an issue with the amazon shipment where several pages were misprinted on my copy (and which i noticed pa...  Read More

Competitiveness


The 201 real interview questions from top companies like facebook, google, and amazon are definitely the highlight.


It is a crash course, and added to this is datalemur which has unique questions enough to crack top tier tech companies for dat...  Read More

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  • This product had a total of 1,131 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 18 2025.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Added note i also had an issue with the amazon shipment where several pages were misprinted on my copy and which i noticed past my amazon return window


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book is not for the mathematics of it all but it is strictly for the ds roles not the ml engg types


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Give it a try if you are looking for something in this area


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is a crash course and added to this is datalemur which has unique questions enough to crack top tier tech companies for data analyst and data scientist interviews


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Could also be a valuable resource for people preparing for quant interviews especially the probabilitystats section


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Theres not a lot of explanation of the concepts but this isnt meant to be a textbook that teaches you the material its a practice guide for interviews and jogging your memory about what to study assuming you already know the material


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its not a textbook but rather a refresher


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Without this book i don’t think i would’ve landed an offer

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