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+ <div>Former mentee!<br><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgraz/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/atishaycn/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>Hi,&nbsp;<br>I was a part of sharpest minds 4 years back as a mentee. Having spent 3 years in the ML industry, I am at the stage where I can help other students, or people looking to grow by guiding, supporting and working with them. I have always looked at the teaching profession as my ultimate goal for my career because that gives me an opportunity to create the most impact at the ground level. Being a mentor at Sharpest Minds will be a stepping stone in the direction.&nbsp;</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><ul><li>Always wanted to do it</li><li>Felt like the right time (</li></ul><div><strong>Career journey</strong></div><ul><li>Working as MLE at Ipsy (3+ years)</li><li>Both building models and productionizing and running them, and monitoring them</li><li>Gets to do both data science and software dev</li></ul><div><strong>Mentorship exp?</strong></div><ul><li>1 person who worked in the supply chain dept, and was interested in Python<ul><li>been helping /guiding him</li><li>he's now moved to analytics dept.</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>The datasets you work with in hobby projects are clean</li><li>was a shock when joining, most time is spent on the data set, cleaning + analysis</li><li>modeling is a small part</li><li>presenting /communicating<ul><li>convincing non-technical folks that value can be added</li></ul></li><li>Lack of interviewing skills (folks take too long to answer, or not taking hints)</li><li>neglecting the fundamentals</li></ul><div><strong>And how can you add value as a mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>always be focusing on the interview<ul><li>lots of practice</li><li>sharing my exp on the other side</li></ul></li><li>depends on where they are coming from</li><li>I've been fooled too many times by JD's - Data Scientist (but they are not, once you read the JD)</li><li>Build a project and work on the base skills</li><li>interview q's are focused on the basics/fundamentals</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <h1>Application</h1><div><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alitozan/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alitozan/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>I am already mentoring people voluntarily and leading a group of $0+ Data&amp;Analytics enthusiasts occasionally (US and Canada based). I am so happy to see people getting jobs. Even manatees are consulting me after getting a job. So I love mentoring :)<br><br>I know SharpestMinds for a while ,and I wanted to be active broader in North America and to be honest generate some extra income using my skills.&nbsp;<br><br>As you'll see in my LinkedIn profile, I have a very diverse background in software development, research and development, machine learning, data science, and product analytics.<br>Happy to have a conversation and share how I can help more people.</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><ul><li>started as SWE, R&amp;D</li><li>then transitioned into DA and ML</li><li>Then DS at a bank</li><li>came to Canada 2017 from Turkey</li><li>worked at Loyalty One, building ML models to drive use engagement, reduce churn and CAC. Built like 20 models around marketing and customers</li><li>recently joined microsoft, 10 months now<ul><li>product focused</li><li>On OneDrive team, lots of experiments</li><li>building metrics to measure success</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Has known us for a long time, sees a lot posts on LinkedIn</li></ul><div><strong><br>Mentorship experience?</strong></div><ul><li>Already mentoring ppl, 40 ppl that get together every month, do a Q+A, some follow ups,<ul><li>built up a community organically over time, folks getting in touch to ask questions</li><li>turned into an email group, then monthly meetup</li></ul></li><li>some of them reach out and ask if he does this 1:1 formally</li><li>Can invite these mentees to the platform</li></ul><div><br><strong>What does a mentor do?</strong></div><ul><li><br></li></ul><div><br><strong>What are beginners lacking? And how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>In the beginning, DS concepts. Is this the right job or not?</li><li>But focus on after they decide</li><li>The different areas of DS (product focused, engineering focused)</li><li>Bootcamp grads =&gt; now what?<ul><li>How to apply, resume</li></ul></li><li>Do a project, great for resume</li><li>As an interviewer, folks have difficult explaining projects, too much jargon, assume too much about your interviewers (like genomics, etc.). Make sure you can say in plain terms what you did (this was a classifier). And if you're targeting a general market, (e.g. users), you probably want a project that is more general, and customer oriented&nbsp;</li><li>I got an interview, help me prep<ul><li>recruiter call</li></ul></li><li>be curious, be relaxed, confidence boost</li></ul><div><br><strong>Questions about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Can I bring in mentees from my own network?</li><li>What if they have a job already?</li></ul><div><br></div><div></div>
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+ <div><br></div><div><strong>Brief background</strong></div><ul><li><br></li></ul><div><strong>Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>been doing this quite a bit informally</li><li>works with hundreds of junior developers</li><li>open source work is great.</li></ul><div><br><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>basic communication skills</li><li>feedback on their code quality (documentation and polish)<ul><li>git, tests, README, issue triage</li></ul></li><li>tech skills are rarely&nbsp; a barrier - soft skills and that level of polish</li><li>hands-on help, resume review, code review, look at their project, and file issues</li><li>would be nice to have repeatable resources</li><li>haven't focused too much on helping ppl apply for jobs</li><li>but do a lot of recommending with employers she knows</li><li>improving skills and also making connections<br>playing the informal recruiter role</li><li>For Rust developers, that I mostly work with, (they may ignore front-end or other langauges)</li><li>hard to understand what roles exist, whom to talk to and what skills to demonstrate</li><li>lots of jobs out there if you are willing to hold your nose and work with a bad tech stack</li><li>help them with goal setting - "What are your goals, timelines, actual dealbreakers"</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Mentee to Mentor -<br><br>1- What motivates you to be a mentor with SharpestMinds?<br>- Made a switch from communications background to AI and experienced hard time finding a part. It takes time to adjust to market needs. Want to help newcomers settle in and don't want others to experience difficult times, which I experienced. There is a lot of info available online on courses to take and techniques to land and research job and help with interviews but ideally mentorship helps with spending less time to gain more.&nbsp;<br><br>2- How was your experience as a SM Mentee?<br>- Can judge in hindsight, and believe I would help my mentee a lot more than what I received.&nbsp;<br>Mentoring is not just supervising, the mentor was not good enough to help with the market and help find a job. It was hard to contact the mentor as the communication was only through emails. Mentor didn't share his network even after asking for it explicitly.&nbsp;<br><br>3- How's your data science career journey been like?<br>- Got into AI 7 years ago.&nbsp;<br>- 2013 moved to business side of Data.<br>- Currently pursuing PhD along with a full-time job, which is a research oriented job.&nbsp;<br>- Have experience of both working in Academia and Industry. Working with the government in aerospace field, on CV techniques. Lead the AI engg and software development teams.<br>- work on various projects involving product design, project management, lots of technical development. This is like working in a startup in a big company and challenged by limited resources.&nbsp;<br><br>4- What according to you is the biggest difficulty or challenge faced by a newcomer trying to land a data science-related job? How can you help them with this?<br>-&nbsp; The most difficult thing for a newcomer in the industry is the lack of network. Personally have got all the jobs through personal or extended network. It's difficult for any newcomer to have this network and don't necessary connections.&nbsp;<br>Usually, folks don't want to share their salaries, if people agree to do so - they really need that job. Can help mentees with building connections, getting references and sharing personal network to help them succeed.&nbsp;<br><br>Willing to hire them in the startup currently working at as well - as in AI it's difficult to judge candidates only based on resume and past experience as these work is mostly done for a company and during mentorship mentees work on a public project guided by a mentor and is a good way to understand their competence.&nbsp;<br><br>5- Do you have any questions for me?<br>- Are there any changes on the platform?</div>
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+ <div>Previous mentee!!</div><div><br><strong>Career</strong></div><ul><li>Bach. in India in CS</li><li>Data Scientist at a startup (1 yr)</li><li>Then Master's in ML (in Canada)</li><li>Graduated 2020</li><li>Then it was rough going. Friend and I joined (Harsh) SM</li><li>SM community really helped me</li><li>Got a job as CRA as an analyst</li><li>upskilled and looked for ML/DS roles</li><li>Hired at TD as data scientist (6-8 months)<ul><li>text analysis - unsupervised ML</li><li>SQL - fixed the runtime in a ML data pipeline. Going into prod soon</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>Decided to help juniors</li><li>folks who ping him on LI</li><li>Helped a few juniors get hired<ul><li>how to prep resume, prep for interviews</li></ul></li><li>Give out a lot of extra tips</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>Resume is the very first thing</li><li>For over 3 months - was getting nowhere. Screened by ATS</li><li>make sure it is getting a higher score on ATS and passing</li><li>Once you are getting interviews, then time to prepare</li><li>questions, behavioural, tech questions</li><li>For resume: I have a specific format, and there are 2 sites that help audit ATS: Get a 90+ score out of 100 on ATS<ul><li>you will see a difference and start to get emails</li><li><a href="https://resumeworded.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">resumeworded</a> scores on format etc, grammatical era, numerical data</li><li>another one, compares resume content to job description content</li></ul></li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Mentee to Mentor&nbsp;<br><br>1- What motivates you to become a mentor with SharpestMinds?<br>- Like to help people and recently helped two friends in Job hunting which was helpful to them. Can add value to people by helping them, Have gone through the Job hunting process twice and have the knowledge on building a resume, networking and tackling interviews. Teaching people is also a great way to learn and stay updated on trends in the D.S. career.&nbsp;<br><br>2- What has your data science career journey been like?<br>- Working with Data comes naturally. Did PhD in University of Toronto. Used data to derive consumer behaviors. Have coding experience of many years.&nbsp;<br>- Got into industry from Academia, and thought being a professor was the best option.&nbsp;<br>- Did intership related to D.S.&nbsp;<br>- Worked at a startup - Dealmaker as the first hire of Data team and built several tools from beginning to deployment. But entire data team was later laid off.&nbsp;<br>- Joined data consultancy company - tiger analytics. Worked closely with other Data scientists. The depth of modeling is much greater and get to work on solving difficult problems of various clients.&nbsp;<br>- Currently in a managerial role in charge of two other people and assign them tasks and oversee their work.&nbsp;<br><br>3- How was was your experience as a Mentee with SM?<br>- Looked for a mentor after graduation, mentor was knowledgable and gave the right guidance on technical learning and making a shift to the industry from academia. Have been communicating to other fellow mentees as well from time to time.&nbsp;<br><br>4- According to you what is the biggest challenge someone faces when breaking into a Data science role? How can you help them with that.<br>- The biggest challenge is How to get the first interview, and not to be shy of reaching out to people for job prospects.&nbsp;<br>Will help mentees by keeping them accountable for their job applications and check effectiveness. Help them improve their strategy, resume and help with interview preparation.&nbsp;<br><br>5- Would you be ok sharing a day in a life story which can be shared with the community?<br>- Yes<br><br>6- Do you have any questions for me regarding SM?<br>- Is there a limitation of % income sharing from mentees? typical range?<br>- What if the mentee is in the US, will I get paid in CAD or USD?</div>
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+ <div><strong>How'd you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Little Red Book ? Chinese social media app - and someone posted about SM. So I checked out and liked it</li></ul><div><strong>Career?</strong></div><ul><li>DS at McDonald's<ul><li>Build ML models to support marketing team</li><li>e.g. match digital offers to customers</li></ul></li><li>background in analytics and DS</li><li>4-5 years in marketing analytics, then moved to DS and building model</li><li>previously at a bank, building ML models for operations team - fraud detection</li></ul><div><br><strong>Mentorship exp?</strong></div><ul><li>Have a heart to help ppl - esp. students</li><li>2019 - started to mentor students from my uni in Chicago<ul><li>review resume</li><li>high-level career goal-setting and skill building</li><li>prep for interviews</li><li>many of them landed jobs - really happy about that</li></ul></li><li>If I can do it for fun, and enjoy it. Maybe I can also benefit from mentoring</li></ul><div><br><strong>Beginner mistakes. How can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>A realistic understanding of the business world</li><li>The way they describe the entire experience is not relevant o industry</li><li>they write everything they did, or everything they know</li><li>look at the JD, and tailor it to their keywords</li><li>See above</li><li>every week we have a single goal</li><li>in between meetings I am available "how to respond", "I need help negotiating"</li><li>Give advice, but I won't do the work for them.&nbsp;</li><li>How to fish instead of give them a fish</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Previous mentee!!<br><br></div><ul><li>not data role to data role</li><li>grown a lot after not knowing anything!</li><li>applying to sr DE roles</li><li>I remember how difficult it was for me</li><li>also wil be going on maternity leave, and would be great to have a mentee to take my place&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br><strong>Career</strong></div><ul><li>ThinkData as a DS/DA - dashboards etc.</li><li>then DE/SWE role</li><li>Then joined a team of 16 people with 7 dif roles</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>interns and co-ops</li><li>helped with onboarding</li><li>helped define requirements and prioritize</li><li>give 'em space to work, but be available</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>how to overcome these challenges being an outsider</li><li>explain to a company how this project will help what they do</li><li>telling stories about what you know applied to what they do</li><li>technical and interview prep</li><li>build a project, pipelines and DE</li><li>explain the decisions along the way</li><li>if this were to scale, how would you scale it (being aware of the tools)</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>I commented on one his LinkedIn posts</li></ul><div><br><strong>Brief background</strong></div><ul><li>we dev internships in college</li><li>switched to ML</li><li>masters in CS focussed on ML</li><li>4+ years of "MLE jobs" but lots of hats over the years</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>in college started an online meetup to teach/learn web dev</li><li>ran a weekly call at one company to teach ML to SWE</li><li>posted on LI about helping folks, and has had 12-13 meetings w/ people over the last 2 weeks<ul><li>worthwhile, free</li></ul></li><li>Low hours, low percent</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>leet code type things</li><li>not having a project or not knowing where to start</li><li>know about the hiring process</li><li>how to improve their resumes</li><li>good handle on resume and job search stuff</li><li>been laid off twice, has experience handling that</li><li>fundamental ML algos (e.g. this is what is happning in an conv net)</li><li>"I want to learn about XGboost next week", I would go figure it out and help them</li><li>interacting with their managers / soft skills / promotions/raises<ul><li>meta job stuff</li></ul></li><li>algos, for pure CS folks</li><li>Help them propose new projects or expand their job duties</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Previous mentee<br><br><strong>Career</strong></div><ul><li>Prototype - Jr. Data Scientist</li><li>Now a Sr. Data Scientist</li><li>medical device to diagnose sleep apnea&nbsp;</li><li>built a lot of the algos from scratch</li><li>3 people on my team</li><li>recently finished a clinical trial going through FDA submission</li><li>lots of signal processing</li><li>we write research papers</li></ul><div><br></div><ul><li>lots of ppl message me that want to work in the medical space</li><li>especially with ML- not a lot of information out there</li><li>if I can provided some support for folks who want to work in it</li><li>and good for me to build relationships</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>informally, yes in my PhD helping students</li><li>and as a team lead</li><li>hire juniors w/o domain experience, and have to hold their hands</li><li>sometimes related experience in medical but no ML</li><li>or ML but no healthcare</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>People coming from <strong>a </strong>research background</li><li>write prod code, Write tests</li><li>code review (I got beat up a lot on PRs)</li><li>emphasize SWE</li><li>also, with FDA and writing a good code</li><li>research to industry<ul><li>code quality</li><li>the environment - collaborating (on doing the work)</li><li>tools: git</li></ul></li><li>Put you in a state of understanding what are people doing in the industry. How a company works is a big asset</li><li>understand what their day-to-day work will be - it can be frustrating</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danrelihan/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/danrelihan/</a></div><blockquote><br>I have worked programmatically with data for the past 20+ years - from developing an geographically-aware image annotation system on a *flip phone* for the MIT Media Lab while an undergrad to developing data and algorithms used daily by the vast majority of Wall Street banks, pension funds, and insurance firms.<br><br>In addition to my technical work, I have personally invested in over a dozen seed-stage startups, been a general partner at a boutique venture fund, personally invested in real estate projects across the US, and served as a non-profit board member.<br><br>I am extremely optimistic for and eager to help the next generation of thinkers and engineers address the current generation of problems and opportunities out there in the world. Some of my most satisfying work in my career has been helping smart, driven people achieve.&nbsp;<br><br>On the mentorship side, I help mentees not only identify what value they can bring to prospective employers, but how to best communicate that to the employer.</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>A blog post that mentioned SharpestMinds (Milan's blog post)</li><li>Though the ISA was unique and interesting</li></ul><div><strong>Mentorship exp?</strong></div><ul><li>Through MIT - venture mentoring service<ul><li>took a freshman, eased their transition from high school</li><li>not super technical (mostly emotional support)</li></ul></li><li>Been at the same company for 17 years<ul><li>works with a lot of new people coming in and ramping them up</li></ul></li><li>Invested in 15+ startups, and friend/mentorship with the CEO/leadership&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>First job<ul><li>technical skill is not nearly as important</li><li>transitioning from an academic setting to a professional setting</li><li>good at doing homework vs. good at solving problems</li><li>soft skills are more important</li><li>setting expectations</li><li>It's more about the data than the model (data wrangling, working across multiple departments)</li><li>reading job descriptions</li></ul></li></ul><div><strong>And how can you add value as a mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>heavily depend on the mentee</li><li>in my first job, I had no idea how anything worked (e.g. the soft skills)</li><li>if I'm not assigned something, what do I do?</li><li>How do I get good feedback?</li><li>expectations in startup vs large company</li><li>The first few months of the job are&nbsp; where to most value can be added</li><li>understand their situation in the job hunt, help them get feedback through me or another third party</li><li>ask lots of questions</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div><strong>How did you find out about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Found us on LinkedIn</li><li>liked the idea</li></ul><div><br><strong>Why mentor? / Mentorship exp</strong></div><ul><li>I do it already in my current role (ML platform lead at Nomad health)<ul><li>leading new team, developing them</li><li>managerial / EQ sense -&nbsp;</li></ul></li><li>Lead the MLOps community (podcast)<ul><li>working with others in the community, hosting events</li><li>bringing people in, helping them be vulnerable and giving them a sense of community</li></ul></li><li>Was involved in the bootcamp community<ul><li>mentored a lot of students</li><li>everybody has a "I don't know enough" problem</li></ul></li></ul><div><br><strong>What are the biggest mistakes beginners make? and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>looking at problems in a vacuum (in interviews)</li><li>baseline fundamentals<ul><li>look something up</li><li>basic coding</li><li>cross-translate one experience to another</li></ul></li><li>"be vulnerable, admit ignorance, but show that you can think through similar things"</li><li>Go in and feel the burn<ul><li>Go apply to jobs (even if you don't want them) get unforgettable, and then do a debrief together</li></ul></li><li>resources, help them identify weaknesses and point them towards resources</li><li>direct, honest feedback from practice interviews<ul><li>know your audience</li></ul></li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <h1>Application</h1><div>Drhrumil was a mentee way back in 2020 with Melvin Roy Victor!<br><br><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrumilpatel02/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrumilpatel02/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>I have been a SharpestMinds Mentee in the past and I want to give back to the amazing community that has helped me a ton to be where I am in my career at the moment!</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><div><br><strong>How did things go with your mentorship?</strong></div><ul><li>&nbsp;At first, had some doubts about it. But I did end up getting a job</li><li>And after that Melvin helped a lot.</li><li>They are still in touch, and Melvin remains very helpful (2 years after the mentorship)!!</li></ul><div><strong>Career story</strong></div><ul><li>Started at Learners.ai (past time, but helped a lot)</li><li>joined corner shop a grocery delivery app, learned a lot of data clearing, and DE</li><li>Then at BMO, working as a data scientist. But mostly Building dashboards, communicating, KPI</li><li>Analytics and dashboarding, BI reporting, and analytics</li></ul><div><br><strong>Types of mentees</strong></div><ul><li>Early in their career, right after school, maybe new in the country</li><li>Don't need the experience but as long as you can learn</li><li>Analytics and BI,&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong>What are beginners lacking and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>Google can get you very far for learning technical skills, but need guidance on what to do next</li><li>How to sell themselves</li><li>Recruiter call to hiring manager call<ul><li>Has some affiliation with a recruiting company. Understands the eco system</li><li>Can help folks with this bridge (what works and doesn't work)</li></ul></li><li>Help folks build-out a portfolio (2-3 good strong projects really help). Depends on what they want. focus on the right industry and the skills/tools<ul><li>With a project built - you can drive the interview.&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul><div>Should be really personal. Should care about it<bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <h1>Application</h1><div><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fanjiang0619/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/fanjiang0619/</a></div><blockquote><br>Hello Team!<br><br>My name is Fan. I’m now a data engineer working at Meta. Nice to e-meet you!&nbsp;<br><br>I'm always passionate about helping people, especially young professionals, to get their first and dream job! When I first see SharpestMinds website, I found this is a great platform that can help me connect with the people who needs help, so here I am :)<br><br>Let me briefly introduce myself a bit.&nbsp;<br><br>I got both my BSc. Statistics and MSc. Computing Science from the University of Alberta. Right after I graduated, I started to pursue my career in the data industry. I’ve been working as a BI developer, data scientist and cyber security analyst before settling down as a data engineer. I have experience working in financial organizations, banks such as HSBC and Scotiabank, consulting firms such as PwC and Accenture, and high-tech companies such as IBM and Meta. I’m enthusiastic as working and growing as a data engineer, and I hope I can help my mentees to launch their career as a data professional!<br><br>Other than my professional experience, I’d also love to share my experience as an international job hunter in Canada with my mentee. I moved from China to Canada 10 years ago. I understand how difficult it is to adapt a new environment to study and work. I hope I can help my mentee to set a clear career goal and achieve their career success in the near future!<br><br>Long story short, I have been working on helping students and early professionals launch their dream jobs in the data industry for several years, and I always enjoy sharing the happiness when people get hired. Please do not hesitate to connect with me to learn more about me! I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.<br><br>Best,</blockquote><div>Fan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>I know a couple of mentors and saw their postings on Linkedin</li><li>Then googled SM</li></ul><div><strong>Mentorship experience?</strong></div><ul><li>founded a student group called iGeek<ul><li>Ran it for 3 years</li><li>bridge btw students and companies</li><li>hosted lots of different career-focused webinars and career fairs</li><li>Founded this b/c when I did it it was hard, and I didn't have the mindset</li><li>help them early to build up their mindset</li></ul></li><li>Lots of experience in the data field. Love helping young professionals to find their first job</li><li>Gives me a lot of happiness</li><li>IBM DS course - I helped them make it</li></ul><div><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>Technical&nbsp;<ul><li>huge gap btw what I learned and school and what was needed</li></ul></li><li>Imbalance of information<ul><li>Perceived as hard. Requirements are opaque. Don't know the difference btw roles</li></ul></li><li>Confidence!!</li></ul><div><strong>And how can you add value as a mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>Do some hands-on projects</li><li>Fill in gaps in knowledge</li><li>Set up clear goals and give them confidence</li><li>Help them decide on the discipline</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <h1>Application</h1><div><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hosseinkalbasi/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/hosseinkalbasi/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>I am currently one of the top Data Science mentors at GreatLearning. I enjoy helping others and being part of the long-term career growth of mentees.&nbsp;</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><ul><li>5-6 years exp in SE and DS</li><li>BS in Industrial engineering / manufacturing</li><li>MS: AI in manufacutring</li><li>worked at several different startups</li><li>Content intelligence / recommendatonn systems</li><li><br></li></ul><div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Saw you on LinkedIn (Reza)</li><li>Talked on the phone with him once. Saw a shout-out on LinkedIn for Reza and talked to him about it.</li><li>I can connect with and help more people</li><li>ISA is interesting</li><li>Find people who are interested enough</li></ul><div><strong><br>Mentorship experience?</strong></div><ul><li>Helps my friends out and peers finding jobs</li><li>held python workshops</li><li>mentoring at great learning - half lecture, half programming<ul><li>helping ppl throughout their jobs</li></ul></li></ul><div><br><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>Don't know what industry is actually like. Don't know what to learn/expect<ul><li>Sometimes, overestimate (need to learn everything)</li><li>Sometime, underestimate&nbsp;</li></ul></li><li>Sometimes missing programming skills, or data science skills</li></ul><div><strong><br>And how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>Find out what their passion is. Why do you want this job? How o you see you your career</li><li>Be picky with the details'.</li><li>I am very self taught and I know how to learn things on my own. Can direct folks in this direction</li><li>Use my teaching experience to help them when they are stuck. Don't do it for them. Give them tips and tricks</li><li>Then help them with their CV, networking tactics, on LI etc.</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Former mentee!<br><br><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremytraberowens/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremytraberowens/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>I know how tremendous of a leveling up I experienced as a mentee in the program, and am confident that it's the reason I'm in the job I'm in now and doing as well as I am (two promotions in one year). I'd love to have the opportunity to pay it forward and teach folks some of what I know now that I'm "on the other side"</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><ul><li>work is crazy RN</li><li>My job title is a software engineer (but actually more of an ML engineer)</li><li>takes models and turns them into prod microservices</li><li>the thing that I had to learn really quickly to be employable was leveling up my SWE skills<ul><li>that was most useful to organizations</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>for me:<ul><li>unit tests + validation</li><li>virtual environments</li><li>working with ci/cd pipelines to get your stuff deployed</li><li>good documentation</li><li>not having giant functions (functions should only do one thing)</li><li>re-familiarized with OOP and functional programming</li></ul></li></ul><div><strong>And how can you add value as a mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>If you have a DS background, let me help you level up your SWE skills</li><li>project-based learning (that I used in my mentorship)</li><li>large project with code reviews</li><li>but also learn from me and other mentors</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>1- How did you hear about SM? What motivated you to pursue mentorship with SM?<br>- Google search, Was looking for a structured way to engage with people and have a vested interest in involving and participating in a community. Used to read and interact with various tech and career-oriented blogs and on reddit, twitter etc. Want to share personal learning with others and help them. Also, an additional income stream.<br><br>2- What's your career journey in Data Science been like?&nbsp;<br>- 5 years of experience working in analytics.&nbsp;<br>- working as a Data engineer both on the backend ( Data curation &amp; infrastructure) and front end ( BI, reporting &amp; Visualization).&nbsp;<br>- Have experience of working in various fields - Retail, insurance &amp; SaaS.<br><br>3- Previous mentorship experience?<br>- No formal mentorship experience, but have trained interns &amp; new hires as part of the job.<br><br>4- What are the biggest challenges newcomers face when trying to land a job in Data? How can you help them with this?<br>- There is an overwhelming list of tools to work with. Analytics needs guidance on which tools to focus on and where to start. Especially a challenge for people from a non-tech background.&nbsp;<br>Will guide newcomers with sharing personal experiences but have a preference of working with people from tech backgrounds as the journey would be similar.&nbsp;<br>- Can help with a structured way to go about job sourcing during mentorship. - Have a flow ready on how target good companies, building resume and techniques to use while applying for jobs.&nbsp;<br><br>5- Questions about SM?<br>- What's your role at SM?<br>- How many active mentors on the platform?<br>- What resources are available to mentors?<br>- How does the relationship between mentor and mentee work?<br>- How are the terms for ISA set? Is it decided by SM?<br>- How is ISA enforced?<br>- How does payment work?</div>
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+ <div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>was Andy Seow's mentee from a while back</li></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Why be a mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>been thinking about it</li><li>and<strong> </strong>enjoyed doing something similar with some interns last year</li><li>would love to do<strong> </strong>it 0 -1&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong><br>Career</strong></div><ul><li>PhD in Philosophy of math</li><li>Non-profit called Ought for the last 2 years<ul><li>a mix of LLM research</li><li>and a product: an automated research assistant for academics (literature review)</li><li>information retrieval/embeddings</li><li>setting properties / more complex tasks with many small models</li><li>small org, 11 ppl</li><li>switch btw product and research</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exp?</strong></div><ul><li>grad school - teaching</li><li>interns at Ought - been fun harnessing their potential (production code bases and communication)</li></ul><div><br><strong>Mentorship preferences</strong></div><ul><li>NLP</li><li>AI safety research</li></ul><div><strong><br>How can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>Exposure to gap btw learning on your own vs in an org</li><li>scoping out interesting projects</li><li>and some plan for prioritizing what to learn. get over informational overload</li></ul><div><br><strong>Tutor vs career coaching:</strong></div><ul><li>lean towards the career coach side</li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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+ <div>Mentee to Mentor.<br><br>1- What is your motivation to be a mentor with us at SharpestMinds?<br>- Learnt things on own and got a good understanding of the path on how to move from an adjacent field towards data science. Want to share this with future mentees and show that it's possible. Also, want to be active within the SM community. <br>- Helping people achieve career success brings satisfaction. <br><br>2- What's your career journey been like in Data Science?<br>- Have a degree in Mech Engg, and worked on Computational modelling in PhD.<br>- Started PhD in 2018 and have coding capabilities. <br>- Started looking for career opportunities in DS/ML in 2019 and decided to make a move and was introduced to SM by a friend and was mentored by Richard. <br>- Got a job as Lead M.L. Engineer for a startup in Waterloo. <br>- Currently working as Senior D.S. at current company.<br><br>3- What's the biggest challenge a new comer faces when trying to break into the Data science role? How can you help the with this?<br>- There is no one challenge that is faced by everyone. Everyone faces different challenges. <br>Assuming someone who has finished Masters or Phd in computational field and is comfortable with programming and have good understanding of Math Concepts - The challenge for them is how they can use their core skills to build a good portfolio to get interviews and get a job. <br><br>- Can help mentees understand and define an interesting project and give technical help to build a portfolio. <br><br>4- How was your experience as SM Mentee with your mentor and with SharpestMinds? Did you work on any projects?<br>- Worked on 3 projects. two of these were simple on linear regression and classification. One project was on reinforcement learning in finance (<a href="https://github.com/mtorabirad/Pair-Trading-Reinforcement-Learning" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/mtorabirad/Pair-Trading-Reinforcement-Learning</a>)<br>- The experience was beneficial. The most important help was with reformatting Resume. It was initially purely academic, Mentor helped with making it industry ready to be able to land interviews and add projects along with it.&nbsp;<br>- Alejandro helped in offer negotiation and in choosing an offer amongst 3 different offers and eventually selected the one for the role currently working in.&nbsp;<br><br>5- You mentioned you want to actively engage with the community - How do you envision this?<br>- Would like to work on a project with 2-3 mentees which can be interesting and come up with a nice and sexy solution and report for a problem. This can be very helpful for mentees to showcase in their portfolios and also help them collaborate with each other.&nbsp;<br>- Identify mentees in specific fields and go through reading resources together. Can help do sessions on Time series forecasting and host space for discussion on it.&nbsp;<br><br>6- Do you have any questions for me regarding SM?<br>- What are the current mentee profiles on the platform?</div>
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+ <h1>Application</h1><div><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="autolinked" data-behavior="truncate" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maithrreye/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/maithrreye/</a><br><br></div><blockquote>I have different mentors in every stage of my career and I would like to give back to AI community by sharing my experience in the data science field with people who want to break into this field as well as people who want to change career. Being someone who worked in technical customer success and moved to high studies to enter into AI field, I believe I can help others from my experience. Mentoring also helps me to be a better leader, gain new perspective and be ladder for a change in someone's life. Also I have time that I can use it here.&nbsp;</blockquote><div><br></div><h1>Interview</h1><div><br><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Started seeing folks on Linkedin talking about it. Then followed us Twitter</li></ul><div><strong><br>Why do you want to mentor?</strong></div><ul><li>From India, MS at U Alberta in ML</li><li>now working at research institute</li><li>In India, worked at Microsoft for 3 years</li><li>Infrastructure job to a ML job</li><li>Has had a lot of mentors who helped with that transition</li><li>Wants to give back</li></ul><div><strong><br>Mentorship experience?</strong></div><ul><li>UofA mentored high school students, helped them plan their careers</li><li>as a grad student, mentored some BS students</li><li>at Microsoft did a bit of mentoring there</li></ul><div><br><strong>What does a mentor do?</strong></div><ul><li>Sharing knowledge /experience that they have gained over the years</li><li>Mentee can learn and grow.&nbsp;</li><li>Both mentor and mentee grow together</li></ul><div><br><strong>What are beginners lacking?</strong></div><ul><li>Lots of role names, can be overwhelming</li><li>Learn what type of role is best for you within the field</li><li>Too much noise to know what is best</li><li>boundaries are blurry / fuzzy</li></ul><div><br><strong>How can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>Explain the difference of the different roles</li><li>Get their understanding of what they want</li><li>Try to find intersect of their interests and roles</li><li>Kaggle&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br><br><strong>Questions about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>Understood a lot from my email (the dating site analogy helped), not many questions</li><li>How do you actually review the performance of a mentor? Is it based on getting your mentee hires?</li><li>Are your mentees just from North America?&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong><br><br><br></strong></div>
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