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Did you switch within the same company or did you have to change companies? My concerns aren't so much about organisational problems but more about how to leve

• PaulHoule 5y ago
  Changed companies, also worked for myself or as a consultant at times. Had some extended job hunts too. I am not doing any ‘data science’ at all in my current side projects which all revolve around art, images, manufacturing, etc. because that is my obsession now. But I guess I should take that back because I am building image selection pipelines again and these are building up training sets that one day will go into a model of some kind. (But that competes with colonizing my office walls, making digital twins for my supergraphics, making a persistence of vision display for my car, and devising a lightweight mirror I can install to perform with a pepper’s ghost, …) I think ‘data scientists’ themselves have more problems than the organizations they work in. Many of them think they are too good to have to think about reliable builds and the many details you have to attend to go from ‘I make a report’ to ‘I make a system that makes reports’. Some of them just won’t take orders when it comes to standardizing the way they do things. In web dev knowing how to use version control, issue tracking, etc. are table stakes. Discipline in software dev is important, just as important as knowing how to map click event coordinates to objects in a web UI, what to do about margin collapsing, where to keep state in a React app and not go insane,…