Behavioral Prompt: Graduate Coursework and Research Highlights
Context
You are in a data scientist technical/phone screen. The interviewer wants a concise overview of your graduate training and research, with emphasis on relevance to applied data science.
Question
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Summarize the most relevant graduate-level courses you completed during your PhD (focus on statistics, machine learning, optimization, experimental design, time series, etc.).
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Describe your key research projects: the problem, data, methods, and results.
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Which single achievement are you most proud of, and why? Tie your answer to the impact and skills relevant to a data scientist role.