[hagy]

As a former DS hiring manager who phone screened over 200 candidates, Insight is the only DS bootcamp that I've found to be positively correlated with capability.The other programs had candidates that were weaker than the generic new grad pipeline. Eventually we just made a PhD a hard requirement to filter down the ridiculous application volume.

[counters]

I can second this. Exact same policy for our data science program's recruitment pipeline; a PhD is a hard requirement and Insight was the only program we noted when reviewing applications. Still, it would be a toss-up between the PhD/Insight candidate versus someone 6 years their junior with 2-3 years of "real world" data science under their belt in the private sector.

[pedrosorio]

> Exact same policy for our data science programs recruitment pipeline; a PhD is a hard requirement

> Still, it would be a toss-up between the PhD/Insight candidate versus someone 6 years their junior with 2-3 years of "real world" data science under their belt in the private sector.

Aren't these contradicting each other? It sounds like you don't even consider the latter candidates. Or do you mean from your prior experience?

[whymauri]

Probably meant that a PhD is a hard requirement for new grads.