
Lindsey Zuloaga
Director of Data Science
HireVue
Salt Lake City, UT USA
“A lot of what makes a career really rewarding is going down a path where you’re interested in it but you also get good enough at it to really contribute.”
HireVue
Salt Lake City, UT USA
“A lot of what makes a career really rewarding is going down a path where you’re interested in it but you also get good enough at it to really contribute.”
Director of Data Science
My team builds algorithms to make the hiring process more efficient and fair.
I sit between very technical and non-technical people. A lot of my time is spent understanding the technical details of what my team is doing and communicating the important parts to the rest of the business to make big-picture decisions on how we spend our time and what products we want to build.
Here's the first step for college students
Network! It sounds icky if networking isn't one of your strong suits, but I very much underestimated the power of human connections in getting opportunities. Try your best to connect with people, go to talks or meetups, ask people in the field you are interested in if they can give you 10-15 minutes of their time to chat, etc.
"You aren't smart enough."
Computer science from new perspectives