Rant ahead…To Data Scientists and Machine Learning Eng’s - you write terrible code. Is it why you’re being laid off? Nobody denies you’re highly educated, most of the time incredibly so, and hyper intelligent but when it comes to actual code quality, it SUCKS!! I’ve spent the last 2 years cleaning, deploying and scaling DS code and I swear it boggles my mind how the expression of their ideas look like a pubescent high schooler who just learned Python a week ago. Quadruple nested for loops, SELECT * FROM x and load into a Data Frame 10 times in a single file, and writing out an entire data science pipeline in a single Jupiter notebook function. Like common… My point is, maybe take this period of layoffs and downsizing and Data Science fat trimming to learn Software Design principles, and the pipeline steps after you prove your awesome ideas?! Everyone knows you’re smart enough to handle the material ?! If you can convince the Software Engineers your not only smart but write good code, they may be able to help convince leadership you’re worth more than your education and to keep you. TC: 250 #tech #datascience #layoffs
This is pretty much what data scientists are supposed to do. They do math and then a dev makes it run better.
It’s not their job. Their job is to build the most accurate and statistically valid models. It’s your job to put it into production. They are two different roles.
OP might be a dick,but putting any code into production doesn't mean refactoring it.
Ok Karen, as if no SWE were laid off.
DSs get paid to solve the problem not wrote quality code, that's the job of dev to support them
OP you do realize, that if a proficient data scientist also becomes proficient in software engineering, you are the one who’ll be out of a job? Because why does the company need both a DS and a SWE if the DS can do both?
Dude so many things change. Its hard to keep up with quality. Lots of ab testing involved and every one wants results.
I would love to see some of this great code OP writes…
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