Steve Mortimer
September 13th, 2017
This presentation is an adaption of another presentation by Chris Mar (@cmar) entitled: “
The Art of Ruby Technical Interviews
”
Love Shopping? |
Passion is interesting |
Love Fantasy Football? |
Build It! | |
Tell Others about it. | |
Check it into GitHub. | |
Put it on your resume, but one thing… |
R is a Community |
Interview Tip: Talk about recent community news.
“Hey, what your thoughts on SQL in R Notebooks?”
Where are they speaking? | What projects are they working on? |
Interview Tip: Have a preference!
“I’m open to using tibbles, but right now I like data.table.”
Look for R Skills in Job Postings |
Stalk Employees at the Company |
Tip: Avoid the technology grab-bag (SPSS, SAS, …) |
Tip: Check them out on social media (Twitter, GitHub, …) |
① | Say you are “Proficient” |
Curiousity over Fluency | ② |
③ | Work your Angle |
Do NOT say “I could Google it”
Do NOT be afraid to ask for help
R-Users
https://www.r-users.com
Upwork
https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/r/
Backup Resources
Indeed
https://www.indeed.com/q-R-Programmer-jobs.html
SimplyHired
https://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=r+programming