Meta layoffs and data science roles
Just noticed on linkedin that a lot of laid off folks from meta are data science or research related roles.. i remember when it was very hard to hire for these roles. Could this be an ongoing trend on the industry or is it just there’re too many “data scientists” that flooded the market pre covid.
In Amazon, we have flooded science roles and the best we get is - you bought ladders for home yesterday, do you want to buy similar ladders for home today?
thats like saying all swes did is - click here to buy ladders
Don’t forget Spotify where their “radio” just plays songs in your library in random order
Overhired with few initiatives
Data science is an inflated role in some companies
Every other person today is a Data Scientist
Data science has been conflated with data analysis ever since the word data science became popular. There are a ton of data analyst roles much less ds. Always been this way. Ds includes modeling and statistics as the majority work. Da is sql, dashboarding and ab testing. Both require interpreting data something critical in business.
the job shouldn't be defined by the tools you use. whats stopping "DA"s from doing modeling and statistics anyway and vice versa?
That's quite disrespectful. The DAs are more like analytics engineers of netflix. However Meta interview expects you to know statistics and modeling. If they don't give you work in Stats and use you as a DA, they are underemploying people
Data science is a mostly confused role
DS is not hard to hire
I am seeing mostly UX , tpms and engineering leadership on linkedin. Barely any ds
DS has been targeted.
Meta data scientists are just Analysts
Nope, not roles it’s the priorities that are slashed. Just because HRs were slashed in round one doesn’t mean there are too many HRs in the industry. The moment there is going to be upturn in the economic cycle you will see lots of HRs being hired.
Bullshit, DSes were specifically targeted