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Content Tired of failing Data Science interviews for being a real Statistician, and not a CS tryhard Google 50 Yesterday Q 46 Comments I am a Statistician. I have a grad degree in Stats. Not a grad degree in Analytics or Physics or Computer Science, a grad degree in Stats. Biostats, Operations Research, and Econometrics are cool though. I build models properly. If you don't have a grad degree in Stats, your models suck. No two ways about it. There are dozens of things you don't know to test and control for, and your model is wildly inaccurate. Outside of CV and NLP, you are an absolute joke. You're a SWE? Good for you. But, that's a completely different skillset with little overlap. Akin to a Pharmacist performing surgery. I go to interviews with 'top' companies and get rejected for giving an answer that is too right. I explain it perfectly vs its alternatives and give all of the context needed. Then some SWE pretending to be a Statistician fails me because they don't know what I'm talking about, they want a crappy DL model because they don't have a clue. Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Linked OpenAl, etc. All have failed me in DS interviews despite perfect performances. All filled with CS tryhards. Even the HFTs are infested with CS dweebs who don't have a clue about DS. Sigma was asking me SWE questions in a Quant interview ffs. Google is my only option, there is nowhere else for me to go to be a real Statistician, believe me I've tried. Sucks knowing when you hit your ceiling and there is no alternative. Half of the Google DSs are now a joke too, have weaseled their way into convincing morons that they know what they are talking about. Sadly, these are the ones that politic into management and hire those of their ilk into the ranks in order to build their empires.

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Ah, corporate wisdom strikes again. Management thinks forcing developers to use cursor-based pagination will give them the energetic Duracell bunny—all that efficiency and power. What they actually get is just Bugs Bunny—endless bugs hopping around the codebase. Nothing says "I don't understand technical decisions" quite like mandating specific implementation details without understanding the consequences. The rabbit hole of debugging goes much deeper than expected.

Content Me: About to run an update query on PROD database My brain: "You don't need a backup. it's just a simple change!" Me: SHUT UP

Content Forcing users to make their passwords longer Just switching to Webauthn-only login since basically everything supports it by now