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What it's like to be on the data science job market (treycausey.com)
30 points by don 3141 days ago | 2 comments


7 points by charlesmartin14 3141 days ago | link

"Here's a problem the team has been unable to solve for six months to solve. Please tell me what features to use."

"I have a great idea for a company but have no money, engineers, or idea how to execute. Please talk to my investors and convince them we can do this."

"Please tell us how much it will cost and long it will take to build our machine learning algorithms. We have no data and no customers."

"We can't afford to hire you. Please interview other candidates for me who can do the job you can do but for much less."

"Can you guarantee that you can build an algorithms with 95% accuracy? You have never seen our data and we will tell you what algorithms to use. Also, we don't understand how to measure the accuracy."

"What is data science?"

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6 points by marksimi 3140 days ago | link

"We are data driven and all conversations happen first with data." (2 minutes later) "Well, our data is a total mess right now. We can't make any decisions with our data."

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