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Re:Why do incompetent managers get promoted? by amznthrowaway5 on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:10PM (#22329325)
That’s possible but not what I’ve seen. I’m on ML teams, the junior engineers often come in with a good CS background and sometimes good software engineering practices, while the highly credentialed senior scientists often refuse to even write unit tests.
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Re:Why do incompetent managers get promoted? by HomeDeLaPot on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:09PM (#22332221)
That's ML. Senior scientist != senior engineer, right?
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Re:Why do incompetent managers get promoted? by amznthrowaway5 on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:13PM (#22332256)
Well it's Senior "Applied Scientist". They get to make all the rules and get a much higher salary than sr engineers. ML teams seem to consistently reward the wrong people who can't actually deliver real value.
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Re:Why do incompetent managers get promoted? by smallcharleston on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:46PM (#22337866)
They might or might not deliver real value, but I’m sure most research scientists view a lot of software as simple implementation rather than real value. I think everyone needs to work together for these complex systems.
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