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by apohn 6y ago
>Curious if there is a correlation with companies that failed to capitalize with the ones who relied on consultants versus really reshaping their own people. I've worked in Data Science customers facing roles for 2 companies, and on
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"Like Big Data, I think we'll see a few companies execute well and actually get some value, while most will just jump to the next shiny thing in a year or two." Here's another aspect - in many places nobody listens to th
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>Wouldn’t the second lever you can pull be your relationships? E.g. a close friend of mine works as a VP of Sales for EdTech startups. He knows every person to talk to at every school board. As long as the product is good he can (and doe
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by apohn 6y ago
You didn't ask about this, but I thought I'd tell you since you are coming from a software engineer background. The other side of PreSales is Post-Sales Services. Basically, it's your job to build what Sales/PreSales so
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by apohn 6y ago
IME PreSales is not typically based on your direct sales. Your variable comp typically comes from the overall sales performance of the sales org. I was at a job where I was the reason we closed a $2M deal. I'm not bragging - even the
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>You are not rewarded for deep mastery, your autonomy to learn and develop something impactful is only as wide as the revenue goals. Just wanted to support this. I think a lot of people with strong technical skills make the mistake of o
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>You need obviously to know your stuff inside out, especially the technical side of things. >the split between tech knowledge and business knowledge will depend on the SE position/vertical and company, but do expect at least a 50
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>Avoid the 'What to Expect' series at all costs. It's popular, but it's utter bullshit. I don't really agree with this for the first book. The main issue with the 0 - 12 month book is that it tries to cover a ve
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One book I wish I had known about was "Precious Little Sleep" by Alexis Dubief. You don't have to follow everything, but having some guide to your babies sleep needs and will be helpful. Honestly, forget the manual. Get hel
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I've been involved in a lot of Data Science projects, and the most successful ones are the ones where the Data Scientist either did or was part of the infrastructure and Data Engineering. Most of the failed projects basically were &quo
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>I work as a data scientist and sometimes find the hype so off-putting that I think that I should look for a role that's related to... I'm Data Scientist and the hype is making me really jaded about the whole thing. I work in
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>“important to the company” work that has to be done and your own manager always going along with it. I've worked in some highly political large companies and one of the best managers I had would basically say "I know this is b
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>To me, it sounds like you don't have enough passion for a phd. I've got a PhD and I don't agree with this at all. People get PhDs for all sorts of reasons, including not knowing what else to do in life. I know a lot of
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I'm not sure if this will help, but I've got a PhD and a know a lot of people (from before and after my graduate student days) with PhDs. Everybody has their own path in life, even if you do a PhD and end up in academia or not. P
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>Because I’m still new to this role, I wonder if I’m being naive or idealistic around how we approach our feature development, or if this is just how most companies operate. IMHO, the way to answer this question is from a sales perspecti
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>We do start out with a pretty well defined problem definition though. One of the things that really helps this happen is when the management structure (on both sides) understands a defined problem statement that both sides agree to is a
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>So ML/DS people need to overpromise in order to get anything approved, otherwise they'd just have to sit around and do nothing, and overall everyone would be worse too, bc that real but unreliable progress would never happen.
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This happened to me in one of my first real jobs. It was a very small company and I'm in the US. I worked for 7 weeks with while my paychecks bounced. It took me that long to quit because the economy was bad and I didn't want t
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>If you're good and driven, it doesn't matter. So I don't mean to be a pedantic ass here, but the "I'm a CEO and I have a wonderful home life" is probably the exception, not the rule. The reality is that yo
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>Yes, kids take time. Lots of time. So if you believe that more time at a work is better, and that it's a zero-sum game (i.e., time with children will take away from time at work), then yes, having children will be bad for your care
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I suspect one big difference is that when you have young children is that you can't bend on "No, I can't work." When you don't have young children you can bend (even if you don't want to), and you say "No
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>Working from home for the past 3 months taught me that a lot of my constant tiredness and apathy came from the constant noise you get in an open office. I can completely agree with this. I've had a lot of jobs, and I had one in a
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>What's wrong with just putting some headphones on if you want to put your head down and do some deep, quiet work? I can't do focused work with headphones and music. I get headaches because I have to put extra effort to focus
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If you take what I said to the logical extreme then sure. What I was trying to say was that it's very black and white thinking to say something like ads = exploiting users and healthcare = not exploiting users. Since Facebook usually c
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by apohn 6y ago
So this is a philosophical argument, but lots of those industries indirectly screw their customers. Optometrists who sell frames generally sell brands from companies like Luxottica who have made eyewear really expensive. The entire insura
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>I also worked for Siemens. There too I didn't try to screw any users, I just tried to make trains run cheaper, faster and more reliably. So I say this based on personal experience. The Siemens' sales force uses their size and
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If you look at the articles about NJ's unemployment systems, the governor is asking for volunteers, not offering jobs with high pay. Read into that whatever you want.
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If you want a stable language that matches with lower stress jobs try Java and work for an established B2B company. Lots of established B2B companies have Java based products they built a few years ago and they need people to work on those
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To support this, some anecdotal data. Back in 1997 somebody I knew with no programming experience who joined a big Indian Consultancy. They trained him on COBOL and some other technologies that were in high demand for Y2K stuff in the US.
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>...we never were able to show meaningful impact anywhere close to what was claimed. This was met with pushback, as before my team was created the company relied on external analytics vendors who always came back with results that were m

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