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Jun 2025
54m 57s

Why Data Scientists Don’t Get Hired — An...

Neil Leiser
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Our guest today is Dawn Choo, founder of Interview Master and ex Data Scientist from Amazon and Meta. In our conversation, we first dive into Dawn's past Data Science projects at Amazon and Instagram. She explains how a pet project skyrocketed her career at Amazon and also shares details on the most impactful project that she worked on at Instagram. We the ... Show More
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