The Five Most Frequently Asked Questions by Engineers Looking to Be a Part of Our Team
During the recruitment process here at Crunch Analytics, we've discovered a number of questions tend to return regularly. In this article, we bundled the five most frequently asked questions and their answers!
1. Can you be more precise about what the company does?
Crunch Analytics is an agency that introduces companies in the field of Retail & E-commerce / Food & Agri to the opportunities of big data & artificial intelligence. We take a look at an organizations’ current business processes and help define how using the broad variety in AI-techniques such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, etc can fundamentally improve these processes.
First, we help companies to determine what tasks should continue to be done by a human, and what tasks can be taken over by a machine. From that point on, we build the appropriate tools.
Business processes that entail small tactical decisions, repetitive by nature, will often be taken out of the hands of an employee. Today, significant improvements in machine prediction & machine judgment enable an AI-driven computer system to automate such an entire workflow (AI-driven Automation).
If the decision is a more impactful strategic decision, we continue to rely on the unbeaten qualities of the human brain in the field of creativity and critical thinking. We merely swap human prediction by machine prediction and provide a human decision-maker with the analytics tools that derive insights from data to allow his/her human judgment to make the best possible decision (AI-Driven Analytics).
Today, we are a young and vibrant team of 20 people, working in our offices in Ghent & Rotterdam. We keep an open perspective to data-rich sectors that are adopting these technologies and have chosen to focus on Retail & Consumer Goods in Ghent, and Food & Agri in Rotterdam.
2. What profiles are you looking to talk to during the VTK Jobfair?
At the VTK Jobfair, we hope to welcome aspiring cloud engineers & data scientists looking to work in a future-oriented service environment with inviting & diverse challenges. Young women & men, looking for an internship, a first job, or the next step in their career.
More info on these profiles can be found here: https://www.crunchanalytics.be...
3. When selecting a new team member, what are the different steps he/she has to clear?
As a candidate, you apply via the open position of your choice that can be found on our website. After having filled in some basic information and attaching your resume, we shall contact you for a phone interview.
If you rock that phone interview, we’ll invite you for an interview at our offices. You will be invited to solve a ‘challenge’ before the interview and present the outcome during such an interview.
If you continue to rock our world, we’ll shortlist you to become the next member in our rapidly expanding team.
4. Can you shed some light on how you work and what tools you work with?
At Crunch Analytics, we work in small, cross-functional teams that combine the skills of Data Strategists, Data Scientists & Data/Cloud/Software Engineers. This allows us to work genuinely lean and with a lot of focus.
When we work with clients, we work with the technology stack that is appropriate given a clients’ current infrastructure. That is why we most frequently work with the Microsoft stack, combining tools such as Databricks, Flow & Power Apps in a Dynamics & Azure cloud environment. In other situations, we might want to shift to the Google stack or open-source toolings such as Docker or Kubernetes.
5. Why should I apply for a job in an ‘Advanced Analytics & AI’ agency?
Simple. If you like developing your skills in working with the latest tools in a rapidly-evolving tech space, then this is the team for you. We are still in the early days of companies trying to figure out how to use techniques in the field of artificial intelligence to their advantage.
Yet, we find it utterly important to build tools & solutions that demonstrate the value, the ROI of AI. We believe it’s important to look at today’s pressing business challenges and fundamentally change how companies are functioning.
Crunch Analytics is not another product company, looking to add a ‘layer of AI’ to an existing product. We are set to become a service company that learns from working with a variety of clients. We are here to mentor young talent in becoming the most trusted advisors in the field of generating true business value, using AI-techniques.
So stop by for a visit, or have a look at our open positions!