Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist

Re:Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the dat... by awb on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:50PM (#19365277)

> I built a front end serverless analytics pipeline from scratch with AWS that handles 30M events/mo. I've demonstrably grown revenue and margins in multiple contexts with my data products

When I'm hiring I care most about wins. These are wins. When I read 30M events / month I want to hear more.

The rest is fluff IMO and things that I'd expect you to play around with while you're self learning. Also, most hiring managers don't care about what you did 10 years ago in sales if you're applying for a data science role. It might be icing on the cake you can share if you get into a conversation about sales or marketing, but otherwise it can feel off topic.

I'd slim down your resume to focus on these two wins (plus any recent experience building or leading teams) and stay later focused on recent data science related work in production. That sounds like a good enough resume to get an interview at most companies. Good luck!

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Re:Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the dat... by enraged_camel on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:19AM (#19366037)

>>When I'm hiring I care most about wins.

Losses can be just as important, IME. “I tried to do X, tried several methods, each one failed due to...” would be an interesting conversation to have with an interviewee.

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