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Half of Data Science is just copy-pasting from StackOverflow

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The epitome of being a Data Scientist is needing to do one thing but having to learn 5 other things first

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@TechLayoffLover Fakest thing I've ever read.

Senior engineering manager at a mid-tier fintech just told me the most dystopian thing I've heard all year His team of 14 engineers who built their entire payment processing platform over 4 years got called into "competitive interviews" last Thursday Management brought in 6 external candidates offering to do the same work for $85k instead of the current team's $140k average The externals demo'd the existing codebase running 40% faster after they spent 3 days with Claude Sonnet optimizing what took the internal team months to build Sarah, L5 with 6 years at the company, watched a contractor from Romania explain her own algorithm back to her while suggesting "improvements" generated by AI The kicker: management is calling it "merit-based role continuation" and making the original engineers justify why they deserve to keep building what they created Tom, the tech lead who architected their fraud detection system, got asked why they should pay him $165k when the external team quoted $47k for "equivalent AI-augmented output" 3 internals already lost their "interviews" to people who've never seen the codebase but can ship features faster with Cursor than the original team without it The external candidates literally used the internal team's own documentation and Git history as training context for their demos Management keeps saying "we're not laying anyone off, we're just optimizing for the AI-native workforce" Badge access gets revoked Friday for anyone who doesn't "earn" their role back The people who built the product are being replaced by people who can prompt-engineer it better One of the externals asked Sarah if she'd be willing to do "knowledge transfer sessions" for $50/hour as a contractor If you built something in the last 3 years, start documenting your exit strategy now

What Companies Think AI Looks Like (vs. What It Actually Is)

After teaching someone a new concept, don’t ask “if they have any questions” Say “what questions do you have for me” — you’ll invite more responses this way!

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At the end of your cold email, If you want to do an informational interview, and start a relationship, that's fine but WRITE OUT YOUR QUESTIONS (and make sure they are well-researched.) Hiring managers don't got time for generic B.S. questions!

At Facebook I HATED getting weak-ass cold-emails from folks trying to "pick my brain and learn more about Facebook". When your networking, have a SPECIFIC ask. ASK for that referral. ASK to start the interview process for an open job. ASK for that informational interview.

Sent a cold email, but got no response?? DO THIS 👇

How do you deal with this situation? Asking for a friend...

Every new line of code you bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, read, understood, and supported. Every time you write new code, do so reluctantly, under duress, because you completely exhausted all your other options. - Jeff Atwood, Founder of StackOverflow

It's so SAD that the #1 most-asked interview question is the same one I see sooooo many people answer poorly. Most people wing their answer, and don't realize there are levels to this game!

What's cold email networking? How'd it get me interviews at Airbnb & Snapchat? AND WHY IS IT NOT SPAM? Watch the video! p.s. if you reply "Cold Email" + RT this Tweet + follow me (@NickSinghTech) I'll send you a 6-minute video on the 6 cold email rules you can't break!

Don't ask your stakeholders "What do you want on your dashboard?" Instead, ask them: "What questions do you want answered from the data?"

You learn just as much reviewing code as you do writing it.