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by apohn 9y ago
I've worked with a lot of Business Analysts and they usually end up fighting over p-values and R-squares, even when the linear models they are creating are total garbage due to overfitting and multicollinearity. I agree with you that e
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by apohn 9y ago
I'm in a similar position myself. 5+ years in Data Science roles, and I've realized I'm less interested in the "generating insights" part of data science and more in building systems and architecture that support t
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by apohn 9y ago
How about a tool to help keep junior employees engaged, motivated, and confident that they are not incompetent? IME, remote work is a situation where people need to have a lot of self discipline and be okay with guiding themselves. With se
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by apohn 9y ago
I'll echo this and also say that you should target companies where remote work is the norm, not companies were remote work is allowed but not actually feasible. I've worked at 3 employers that allowed some degree of remote work. A
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by apohn 9y ago
>...but General Motors can utilize the real estate and expertise of it's existing network of dealerships, which can save them from a great deal of capital investment as Robotaxis dissemintate. I was involved in a project at a major
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by apohn 9y ago
>Maybe he was happy-as-a-clam there but spending your entire adult life having (seemingly) never taken a risk. If he was able to climb the ladder to become the CEO, he probably took some very big risks and had a very big target on his ba
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by apohn 9y ago
Let me restate this a different way. Imagine having multiple jobs where you are recognized and have the type of impact that transforms the entire world. In this case all of that happened at one company. He probably had enough money to ret
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by apohn 9y ago
If you've lived in a place with a more balanced gender ratio, walking around in a gulf country can be very jarring. At least in UAE, female Arab nationals are out of the public eye, but non Arab females go to malls, walk around, drive
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by apohn 9y ago
A lot of the countries in Middle East (E.g. Saudi, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait) rely heavily on workers imported from outside these countries. The "manual labor" class in particular brings in a lot of men on employment v
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by apohn 9y ago
In all 3 cases, the background checks were done by third party companies. HR receives a report from them that has text like "Employer 1 - Dates Verified, Position Title Verified." I also had "Employer X, called twice on num
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by apohn 9y ago
For my last 3 jobs I've entered 0 (or $1 if 0 isn't allowed) as my past salary in online forms and blacked out my SSN, pay, taxes, etc on W2s and pay stubs. I usually just leave my name, date, and the company logo. I've had
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by apohn 9y ago
>Autonomy, relationships and mastery. I agree with you. However, I suspect HN has a lot of people who value these things, but I wonder what percentage of people are purely focused on other things (e.g. money, power, etc)and don't c
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by apohn 9y ago
>I've always lucked into these situations Given that you know to look for a good boss and you know to resist offers purely based on financial terms, I think you are helping yourself to make your own "luck" :)
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by apohn 9y ago
For the the type of role I described in my post, being able effectively define metrics to quantify a business problem (e.g. how can we better engage with group X on our platform) and work with product engineering to build those features (in
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by apohn 9y ago
>I did not get the position, but I would recommend you look elsewhere if your focus is truly machine learning For ML, it's really important to join a team where your interests in ML are aligned with what the team does. It's re
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by apohn 9y ago
This depends heavily on the size of the customer success team. I used to work at a place with only one customer success person who managed and tracked content on an external facing community site (basically the combination of a FAQ and For
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by apohn 9y ago
I moved South, somewhere in the Carolinas/Georgia area. Where I am now there are far fewer tech jobs than NYC, and a lot of the jobs are in companies that aren't as fancy sounding as what you'd see in NYC. I moved to a job w
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by apohn 9y ago
Since TripleByte also has companies in NYC, I'll provide a datapoint if you are considering NYC instead of the bay area. Our (my spouse and mine) goals around financial independence are similar to yours. We left the NYC area. Before I
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by apohn 9y ago
>> After failing culture fit tests at companies >> I don't like people that much though I do put up a front Question: Do you not like people or do you not like the people you have to interact with on a regular basis? If y
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by apohn 9y ago
Reading HN is extremely overwhelming. I'm in the data science field. So I read yet another Deep Learning article on HN and wonder how long it is till I'm unemployed and bankrupt because I barely know anything about deep learning
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by apohn 9y ago
The last company I worked for acquired 2-3 companies per year, And it became obvious that in some cases the people who part of the acquisition were burned out and wanted to be free of their responsibilities. But they didn't have the
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by apohn 10y ago
>I wouldn't describe my current work as mundane, for better or for worse. To be successful here long term I'd need to spend a greater percentage of my mental cycles on work than I've been able to muster so far. Not necessa
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by apohn 10y ago
100% Agree. The most interesting work in the world can become awful if you don't get along with the people you work with -especially your manager. Getting along with your colleagues and having a great manager can make even the most h
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by apohn 10y ago
Being in a mundane job and checking out at 5 has it's benefits - you have both the time and the energy to focus on the projects and people you actually care outside of work hours. You also don't have to worry about money. Your in
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by apohn 10y ago
RTI International ( https://www.rti.org/ ) does the type of work you're talking about. My understanding is they also pay better than what you'd typically see in some policy institutes or postdoc jobs. They have Da
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by apohn 10y ago
I've got some feedback and you might see it as mean and brutal. But what I'm doing is being honest as how I would evaluate a resume that looked like your LinkedIn profile. I'm just telling you what I'm thinking. The fi
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>>I've been looking for a job, and I've found how vaguely organizations define their data scientist and analyst roles in their job postings really frustrating. I lead a Data Science team and part of the struggle with writing
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by apohn 10y ago
Rather than lumping more established companies into one bucket, realize that your experience at a large company is going to be determined by the team you are in and the managers who dictate the fate of your group. If the goals of your team
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>> However, the feeling I get is that presales only lead to more presales roles, where most of your time is spent meeting clients and producing countless presentations to get to an eventual prototype...and there's more presales t
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by apohn 10y ago
Part of the issue might come from being from PreSales. Does your resume strongly reflect that you were in a PreSales role? Should it? If you are applying for PreSales roles, then yes. If you are trying to get out of PreSales, then no. In

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