On average, data scientists' salary working in Apple, India is estimated at Rs.37.5 lakhs per year

Data scientist is the hottest jobs in the technology sphere. On the other hand, Apple is a top-notch technology company that people aspire to be a part of. Think about being a data scientist at Apple. Isn't it amazing? Indeed. But cracking Apple's data science hiring is not an easy job. It involves experience and skills, and a knack to adapt to an environment where everything is high-tech. Henceforth, Analytics Insight has listed the routine things that take place during data science hiring at Apple branches in India. Additionally, we have also listed some current data science openings in Apple, India.

Get Hired as a Data Scientist at Apple

Apple Inc. is one of the biggest tech conglomerates in the world. The company has many teams to design, develop, and deliver electronics, computer software, and online services to consumers. Since Apple is very vast and spread across many places and serves many purposes, it is in dire need of passionate minds who can deliver the company's principles. Starting from the company's well-known artificial intelligence development team at Siri to its architecture development team at iCloud, all departments have some sort of work for data scientists. This makes Apple's data science hiring a never-ending task. India's Apple branches are not different. They too have constant openings for data science hiring.

Roles and Responsibilities of a Data Scientist at Apple

Generally, many tech companies are drawn to people from different backgrounds that are pretty good as data scientists. But Apple has different criteria for data science professionals. The company is familiar to favor full-stack data scientists, people equipped with a broad array of data science skills such as data analytics, machine learning, software designs, and software engineering. Since Apple is vast and has many teams working under many initiatives, the company makes sure that data science hiring is particularly based on the team's need.

Fortunately, Apple paves way for a certain qualification that is mandatory for its data scientists. Regardless of the focus area, the data scientist should have a few things in common like their background, known coding languages, skills, etc. The company gives priority to data scientists who are from computer science, economics, maths, or statistics background. Similarly, people well-versed in coding languages like SQL, Python, C++, etc. are given priority. On average, data scientists' salary working in Apple, India is estimated at Rs.37.5 lakhs per year

Some of the repetitive questions asked at Apple's data science hiring are listed below,

• What metrics do you use to evaluate a model?
• What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
• Describe the difference between L1 and L2 regulations, specifically with regards to the difference in their impact on the model training process.
• Write a function to detect if a binary tree is a mirror image on both the left and right sub-trees.
• How does XGBoost handle the bias-variance trade-off?
• Explain the SVM machine learning algorithm.
• They give you a transaction table and ask questions based on that. For example, write a query to get the number of customers that were upsold by purchasing additional products.

Current Apple's Data science Openings in India

Senior Data Scientist, Commerce Analyst for Apple Media Products

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Roles and responsibilities: As a senior data analyst and commerce analyst, the candidate will play a key role in improving the AMP commerce and payments platform. As a member of the Apple Media team, he/she will help optimize the platform by developing new data products and tuning existing features. They need to work on the account and payment creation flows transaction efficiency, and authorizations, and subscription management and renewals. He/she should deep dive into large-scale data to identify key insights that inform product improvements and business strategy. The candidate should be well-versed in supervised and unsupervised learning, A/B testing, and causal modeling. He/she should engage with business, engineering, product teams as a partner.

 Other qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, engineering, or related quantitative field.
• Advanced degree in other fields like Applied Econometrics, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Analytics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or related fields preferred.
• 10+ years of professional experience in data science or product analytics is necessary.
• The candidate should have expert-level SQL skills with the ability to mine both structured/unstructured data. The ability to conceive and execute end-to-end scripted analytics solutions using SQL/Teradata and at least one large-scale data language such as Scala or PySpark are mandatory.

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Data Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Roles and responsibilities: The candidate is expected to design and build data structures on MPP platforms like Teradata, Hadoop to provide efficient reporting and analytics capability. He/she should design solutions using new generation In-Memory Columnar databases like HANA. As a data engineer, they should translate sophisticated business requirements into scalable technical solutions meeting data warehousing design standards. The candidate should have a strong understanding of analytics needs and proactiveness to build generic solutions to improve efficiency.

Other qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in the relative field is mandatory.
• The job requires 5-15 years with 5 years of experience and an in-depth understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• The candidate should have database development experience with Relational or MPP/distributed systems such as Oracle/Teradata/Vertica/HANA/Hadoop/Single-store/Snowflake.
• He/she should have programming experience in building high-quality applications, data pipelines, and analytics solutions.
• Having experience in developing big data applications using Java, Spark, Hive, Oozie, Kafta, and Map Reduce is a great benefit.
• The aspiring data engineer should be proficient in writing Advanced SQLs, Expertise in performance tuning of SQLs.

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Application Developer Data Engineer- Supply Chain Systems

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Roles and responsibilities: As an Application Developer/Data Engineer, the candidate will work with application owners, developers, QA, project managers, support teams, and end-users. He/she is expected to lead proof-of-concept and pilot implementations to demonstrate new ideas or illustrate the use of new technologies and how to apply it to Apple's system. The candidate should be able to perform regular design and code reviews and participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues, provide technical guidance and mentoring to a small team of software engineers, develop critical system components as well as take the bottom line for the team's timely deliverables quality and performance.

Other qualifications

• S/M.S in Computer Science or an equivalent degree with excellent problem-solving skills, deep knowledge of data structures, and object-oriented design and development paradigms are mandatory.
• The candidate should have 8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise-level application development using advanced Oracle database technologies.
• He/she should have a thorough knowledge of UNIX/Linux platforms, scripting experience with Shell, XML, JSON, Advanced SQLs, Oracle PL/SQLs, and hands-on experience with large volume databases for both OTLB and OLAP environment.

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