Melody Joy Kramer melodykramer

Analyst Interview Questions

A collection of questions we typically ask job applicants during analyst interviews.

Scenario

The date is January 4. You are well rested after a festive holiday season. 🎉

We're gearing up to launch a new product, and we need your help.

Let's begin.

A friend is looking for a new tech job and asked if I knew anyone at a handful of companies. I'm (meaningfully) connected to more people who are relevant to this on Twitter than LinkedIn, so figured it would be easiest to scour people's bios. Naturally, I did this in the nerdiest way possible and automated it.

<3 @aidanfeldman

P.S. See also:

my list of recommended job boards
SocialRank (structured search of followers)

	import urllib2
	import json
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


	def get_station_info(index, api_key):

	try:
	url = "http://api.npr.org/v2/stations/org/{0}?apiKey={1}".format(index, api_key)
	content = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

	codelist = ""

	#this one splits the states.csv file
	with open("states.csv","r") as states_file:
	states = states_file.read().split("\n")

	for index, state in enumerate(states):
	states[index] = state.split(",")

	#this formats the states in a pretty table

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