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I do not necessarily care about hard problems, but I do care a lot about interesting work. Fighting fraud sounds interesting, learning accounting sounds interes
by TACIXAT 7y ago
I do not necessarily care about hard problems, but I do care a lot about interesting work. Fighting fraud sounds interesting, learning accounting sounds interesting. I find interesting for me often correlates to things I don't know. It is hard to get hired on things I don't know and even harder to stay at the job once I've figure the things out. Happy with my current role because I'm working on stuff that I have to figure out.
So I think less so hard problems and more so learning opportunities.
- RhysU 7y agoFighting fraud is only interesting if the fraudless business is interesting. If the business is stupid, fraud should happen.
- paulryanrogers 7y ago> If the business is stupid, fraud should happen. Are you saying fraud is justified if a business is boring?
- FillardMillmore 7y agoFraud detection is comprised of a lot of interesting data science and pattern recognition (example being utilization of graph databases like Neo4j and its advantages over traditional RDBMSs of index free adjacency) not to mention the leveraging of ML. If the business paying me to implement this sort of thing is 'stupid' and 'boring' (whatever your definition of that is in the context of a business), why would that make the act of working and implementing fraud prevention any less of an interesting endeavor? http://we-yun.com/book/%E5%9B%BE%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E5%BA%93%E4%BA%94%E5%A4%A7%E5%BA%94%E7%94%A8%E6%A1%88%E4%BE%8B/Fraud%20Detection%20Using%20GraphDB%20-%202014.pdf http://we-yun.com/book/%E5%9B%BE%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E5%BA%93%...
- mirimir 7y agoIt can be extremely profitable too. If you happen to identify fraud against state or federal government, and it gets successfully prosecuted, you can earn 30% of imposed penalties.
- pixelbash 7y agoOut of curiosity does anywhere other than the US have this kind of incentive?