October 1, 2022

Episode 23: Automotive Industry Analytics an Interview with Data Analysts and their Tech Recruiter at ACV Auctions

In this episode Andrew Melbourne, a recruiter, Maggie Mai, a product analytics team lead, and John Ghosen, analytics engineer from ACV auctions will talk about what kind of data analytics ACV Auctions does. Listen to the episode to learn about how their career paths lead to this area, the ACV hiring process for data analysts, and Maggie’s advice for communicating with non-data scientists.

0:00 Intro

0:48 What does ACV do?

1:50 What Maggie, John, and Andrew do at ACV

7:00 How is your time split between working alone or as a team?

8:00 What software and programming languages do you use?

9:19 What kind of skills are ACV looking for when hiring?

11:26 Communicating non-data scientists

14:17 Favorite part of being a data analyst

15:25 Professional development

19:28 John and Maggie’s career path

22:40 The interview process at ACV

24:53 Advice for people interested in data analysts

25:09 Resources for data analysts

26:48 Outro

Resources

• StackOverflow
• W3Schools
• 3Blue1Brown
• Careers at ACV
• Andrew Melbourne LinkedIn

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