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To be fair that is the same with many jobs. It always sounds like you will be building the next great thing from scratch, but end up spending far more time fixi
by collyw 7y ago
To be fair that is the same with many jobs. It always sounds like you will be building the next great thing from scratch, but end up spending far more time fixing other people's crappy code.
- vmurthy 7y agoAsk any Postdoc or PhD candidate :-). Even they aren't spared from the "discover the next great thing" phenomenon. Perhaps the best thing for students/new employees to realize is that while they may be on the path to building the next great thing, that path is full of potholes and grunt work. Will save a lot of disappointment when they hit the road.
- minimaxir 7y agoTrue, although data science seems to have an elevated discrepancy of expectations vs. reality.