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>Sounds more like it simply doesn't work very well, rather than any of the reasons you listed. The use case you've described has a defined problem and a measurable metric. Problem: We think load times influence conversions: M
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>But in terms of career progression and job safety, the risk is just way too high, at least for me personally. I save the highly mathematical stuff for a hobby. I think the sad truth is that this is the reality of work no matter if you a
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> the business absolutely doesn't care how you get your answer, only if they're reliable enough (hand grenade close is better than most companies have today). One of the challenges with this is that "reliable" can mea
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>The worst cases I have seen is when executives take a problem and ask data scientists to "do some of that data science" on the problem...high-level pie in the sky stuff that works well in pitch meetings and client meetings...
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Question - Do you never speak up in meetings? Or you only speak up in certain types of meetings with certain types of people? Some people can be good leaders and speak up in meetings where they are talking about an area they are comfortabl
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Anecdotal evidence - I work for a very large enterprise company and have a lot of meetings with customers and partners. The company I work for sells software to a lot of software and non-software companies. Most of these customers are lar
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A lot of times it doesn't make life easier. It just looks easier to people signing the checks. And the people building/selling the products aren't data scientists so they don't realize they are not making life easier.
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Or they could really like you and make you the first person they call with their insanity and high priority tasks. Either way, you're in for a bad time.
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I'm one of those people who used to work in a "mission-driven." job. As part of burning out and walking the slow road to recovery, I started to feel a lot of "mission-driven" people are really selfish ladder-climbe
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I used KNIME at a previous job. Open source desktop application is free. Server is paid. Competes with other workflow based GUI tools such as Alteryx. I liked it a lot.
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It's amazing to me to learn that you can help other teams solve problems at Google. Every big company I've worked for (none of them FAANG), helping another team is a recipe for disaster. You will get your hand slapped, punished,
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I was responding to your comment where you said "The behavior of slacker Googlers described here would have gotten them instantly fired in any European company." There are a lot(!!) of European Multinationals, plenty of which are
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This is just my experience, but that isn't true at all. I work in the US for a huge European based Multinational with an HQ is Western Europe, Dev offices in Western and Eastern Europe, US, and Asia. There are plenty of devs all over
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What are the differences in the base versus variable (e.g. bonus) pay for SWE versus consultant? At one point I was in a travel heavy role and I got a fairly good bonus based on utilization/billable hours. Overall the consultants mad
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I worked for a company once that went through an extended period of "cost controls." The end result was a cycle of hiring and hiring freezes, and many people would start interviews during a hiring period and then partway through
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Ask HN: Examples of Design Doc Translated SWE Task List
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There are a lot of great answers so I'll just provide some general advice. 1. Baby sleep is not intuitive at all. Learn as much as you can before the baby comes. Read "Precious Little Sleep" by Alexis Dubief. Figure out h
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>While I agree with most of the sentiment, it should be noted most companies don’t ‘hyper-focus’ specialization like that. There are a lot of on-premise software vendors who are exactly like this. The consulting group exists to deploy,
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>Personally I am far happier working as a one-man show. I only take on projects where I can deliver real results on realistic timelines and budgets. There is a middle ground between Big 4 and one person consulting. I used to work in the
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How exactly would you define work/life balance? You will typically travel 4/5 days a week. Even if you are lucky and only work 40 hours a week, you are still not home. If you have a family and you enjoy being with them, then ev
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>Stop feeling guilty for setting aside time to learn skills during regular working hours. It took me a while to adjust, but it's utterly logical and correct that technical people should explore technologies as part of their work. Pa
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>According to mortgage calculator, a 1.5m house would take 60k down-payment and 1.5k/month[1]. Did you miss a zero somewhere or did the calculator have a bug? There's no way 60K down and 1.5k/month is correct. It's
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Raleigh includes everything from downtown apartments to suburbs. There's quite a spread. Apex is mostly suburbs, albeit the nicer suburbs where stores are a quick drive (5-10 minutes) away. $700K is definitely at the upper range of
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Our experience as well. I was in the room as well the whole time and it was ridiculous how often somebody came in to do something. With exception of one nurse, every single person pushed back against us asking for fewer interruptions and s
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I used to work for a well known automobile company as both an employee. I've also worked for other auto companies in as part of a consulting job. Auto companies are typically big, slow, and focused on selling a product that takes yea
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>I just missed it. I graduated in 2001 and looking for a job was terrible. I think for a lot of people that experience was a wake up call to the reality of the world. One year everybody with a technical degree is graduating with jobs wa
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I attended a well regarded Engineering school back in the mid '90s and people were getting developer and "IT" jobs really quickly and without much interview rigamarole. If you could build a computer and install Windows you&#
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>I've met loads of successful people in my career that cheerfully admit they couldn't hack the technology side of things. Chin up! I think one nuance is that some people don't have the interest/skills to be a develope
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There are a lot of people who realized being an SWE/Developer was not the right choice for them. This is for lots of good reasons - not having enough interaction with other people, feeling too insulated from the outside world, not lik
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>I have a friend working as an engineer in a company where engineers I categorize this as a place where there are "leaders" and "peons." The "leaders" see themselves as the important people who have ideas a

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