amznthrowaway2

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   by amznthrowaway2 7y ago

   Ruining careers? Not always. Mona Ramamurthy, former head of Theranos HR and Sunny Balwani's right hand woman, was one of the most egregious offenders and later got a job as senior HR at google. Google was probably most impressed by he
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   by amznthrowaway2 8y ago

   It's still highly restricted for many teams working with customer data
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   by amznthrowaway2 8y ago

   The “canfulfill” API for skills is available. Alexa scientists are constantly working on improving the arbitration experience but it’s a very difficult problem, especially due to security concerns. https://developer.amazon.com&#x
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   by amznthrowaway2 8y ago

   He's right about how data pipeline work is regarded by most ML scientists. It often ends up being extremely hard work and is regarded by others as useless grunt work. There is no big reward, constant overtime due to unexpected issues a
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   by amznthrowaway2 8y ago

   Software engineers are given the SDE title at Amazon but I just used SWE as the more general "software engineer" acronym.
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   by amznthrowaway2 8y ago

   "data engineer" is often considered a lower prestige title than data scientist. "Data scientist" is a title recently thrown around a lot for positions that used to be called "data analyst", with no strong ML or