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by apohn 8y ago
I googled "vegan mayo scandal" and here's a quote from the first result - "He notified Hampton Creek’s two outside board members, from Khosla Ventures and Horizons, that he suspected Tetrick was misrepresenting the compa
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by apohn 8y ago
>But, the CEO is going to investors pitching the fact that we've built/are building some deep learning engine that can be applied to all problems. Are you directly involved in the meetings the CEO is having with investors? Do
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by apohn 8y ago
I worked for a company that was acquired by Vista. Was there for a few years before the acquisition and ~18 months after. I'll just say this - whatever Vista's top secret directives are, they didn't seem to have any sensible
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by apohn 8y ago
> Applications for a working visa in tech were sent on April 1st this year. There's another important pain point in the US H1 visa system. New visa applications start in April, but people who get the visa cannot start working till
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by apohn 8y ago
I'll say this as somebody who worked in consulting and has seen many projects fail for similar reasons. You are focusing on architectural and technical issues. Don't forget business issues. >I was only given 3 months although
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by apohn 8y ago
At least in North America, one thing I have seen is an increasing number of restaurants that have a vegetarian option that is decent. In the past it was always just a regular meat dish minus the meat, but it costs the same. Or worse, take
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by apohn 8y ago
In my last 3 jobs I've stated "References provided upon request" and never actually been asked for the references. All these companies had established HR organizations and processes, and they had the resources to check refer
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by apohn 8y ago
A of of these projects/products come from the same place. An executive or manager has an idea. Some of these ideas have good intentions. Some come from somebody reading HBR and seeing an article titled "By 2020 30% of purchasin
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by apohn 8y ago
A large company I worked for was spending >$1M/year (data + data pipeline + personnel) on "Social Media Analysis." Every month a "Social Media Report" PDF was emailed to "key stakeholders and decision maker
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by apohn 8y ago
>You should ask the company. This x100. Every consulting organization is different. I worked for the consulting arm (paid services) of a product company. We had levels from associate to principal and none of it actually meant anything
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by apohn 8y ago
It's always case specific, but it usually involves the manager supporting them by providing time and/or space. rubicon33's example and response is a great one. Put them in a situation where their strengths can be well utili
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>I've loosely followed him since, and he seems to be absolutely crushing it wherever he goes. Question - is his management crushing it as well or are they crushing him? Is he good at standing up for himself and not letting manageme
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by apohn 8y ago
I was referring to people who were actually using the product. I've had a number of jobs in my life, including being in the services division of a product company and also in an internal consulting team of an extremely large non-tech
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by apohn 8y ago
>Why? I've discovered over the years that I am far more excited by making customers happy than by doing technically interesting work. I've come to see the technology as a means to an end, not the end in itself. 100% agree. I&#
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by apohn 8y ago
Thanks. I'll go straight to 2018 part 2. Looking forward to it!
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Jeremy - First of all, I just want to say thanks to you and Rachel for the course(s). I worked through part 1 (2017 version) last year and it was fantastic. I've got part 2 on my to-do list for this year. Looking at the 2018 part 1 c
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by apohn 8y ago
Being more objective about and positive/negatives of major aspects of one's life. Since this is HN, I'll talk about having a technical role/job. It's really easy to feel that something fantastic (e.g. a great busin
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by apohn 8y ago
A lot of people are correct in stating that sales reps are there to find the path to the most sales (not just today, but tomorrow as well), and that path is learn as much as possible about your use case, company, and people. That provides
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by apohn 9y ago
This statement screams failure - "We would have one week to recruit developers from our company's off-shoring pool and then two weeks to coach the team." Basically, they were forced by their corporate entity to hire people th
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by apohn 9y ago
>>You'll most likely not get a definite answer because it can range from very bad to very good depending on both company and team. This matches my experience. I disliked unlimited vacation because my manager at the time was a mas
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by apohn 9y ago
>However, I've talked to other older students who have different experiences, such as difficulty integrating into student culture or getting help from professors/advisors. I used to teach at a university and I'll tell you
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My comments are referencing people who like to be hands on, and not people who always wanted manage and coded just because they had to. As you get more experienced you 1) Get better/faster at recognizing when a project will fail for no
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by apohn 9y ago
>I think it's more about finding a good fit. Part of what is considered "life experience" is stumbling through things until you figure out the circumstances where you can do your best work, and where you turn into "do
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by apohn 9y ago
>My personnal experience with data scientist and startups is that they're hired much much too early, when the product has a lot more fundamental issues to solve, and only because it looks cool to say that you're doing AI. Not j
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by apohn 9y ago
With exception of one person (who left for a better job, not because they were fired), the executive management that enabled that stupid decision is still there. The people that did the actual hiring are mostly gone, but they were just paw
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This is from medium sized US software company. As per standard employment contract, 1 week pay per year worked. It was more generous for managers, but that was the company being generous, not anything that was in the employment contract.
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by apohn 9y ago
Not just OSISoft PI, but there are many other historians for time series data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_historian At least in my experience, historians are rarely recommend for complex or ad-hoc querie
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by apohn 9y ago
I also wonder if the autonomy novelists have changes when they get famous. Suddenly the success of the book has a direct impact on sales of future books, movies, toys, games, cartoons, the Disney Rides, etc. When there is more risk there
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by apohn 9y ago
>But if you've ever read a novel that at the end you feel a bit lonely, like you've lost a friend, or been moved by a beautiful piece of music, then you'll perhaps see what I'm getting at. If you don't mind, here
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>I envy musicians, fiction writers, at least their work gives people joy, and maybe gives them joy as well. Ask yourself this - what qualities do you see in this work that you admire? Are they things like autonomy, creativity? Which of

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