1. Sara Vera
Data Scientist at Insightly
sarav@insight.ly
The Art of Hiring Awesome
Data Scientists

2. • The Hub of Your Communication, Sales and Collaboration
• Small Business Focus (1-200 Employees)
• General, All Purpose Customer Tracking
• Integrated CRM & Project Management
• Multiple Access Platforms (Web, Mobile App etc)
Why Insightly?
Key Integrations:
• Google Apps/Gmail
• Dropbox
• Outlook 2013/Office 365
• MailChimp
• Import2
• Evernote
• Google + Hangouts
• PandaDoc
• Quickbooks Online
Google+ Hangouts
• Zapier etc

5. How do you find
awesome data scientists
when the supply is
smaller than the demand?

6. http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/the-question-to-ask-before-hiring-a-data-scientist/
First
Define your needs
Ask yourself: Is our data scientist
producing analytics for machines or
humans?

7. Analytics for
Machines or People?
• e.g. Ad targeting,
recommendation
engines
• Need strong
mathematical, statistical
and computational
fluency to build models
that can quickly make
good predictions
• e.g. Analyzing products,
understanding user
growth and retention,
producing reports
• Need to be able to tell
a story from the data,
drawing conclusions
about the “how” and
“why”

8. Hire for talent, train for tech skills
Second
Analytical thinking and good communication
skills are harder to teach than SQL, Python,
R, Java…

9. Third
Broaden your pool of candidates
Diversity
Increases your revenue
Promotes innovation
Provokes more thought, jolts cognitive action
Think outside the box when looking

10. Remember
Define your data needs
Hire for talent, teach tech skills
Look outside the box for a diverse pool

11. Data.You can do it!
Sara Vera
sarav@insight.ly
Thank You