>fell for the Data Science meme >applied to over 160 jobs >few interviews >every interview had some Math Olympiad AND Hackerank tier technical test >somehow manage to pass this stage >get interviewed by some Phd level Senior Data Scientist >interviewer was bragging about how over 200 people applied and that I should be grateful >made fun off my credentials and mocked me for not having 100 first author publications >enough >straight up called his bullshit and walked out of the office >next day HR calls me and apologizes and they make me an offer >salary is just above minimum wage >muh “100k starting and sexiest job of the 21st century”
What the fuck do Jow Forums. I have until this week to decide.
What is the salary. Junior data scientists should be making something like 60k-80k, at least where I live
David Morris
>should
Evan Reyes
What's your background? (actuarial, coding, software engineering, self taught, other?)
Juan Collins
>Data science meme
If it's a meme you're already too late to the field.
Wyatt Stewart
Was previoisly working as a Business Analyst but got laid off due to restructuring.
Nolan Hughes
Also, what programming languages did you say you were proficient with?
Josiah Ramirez
A lot of "data science" jobs are actually software developer or database engineer roles but are misclassified. You need to figure out what your specific skill set is and which specific positions match it. Use the right key words etc. Oh and pretend to be gay and multi racial.
Noah Powell
That is how you do it Now dox the fag and the company and have user take care of it
Eli Hernandez
stop playing the honest idiots game OP. just lie and overinflate your credentials like everyone else. Pro Tip!
Caleb Bell
Should’ve fell for the actuary meme
Isaiah Anderson
The actuary is the boomer data scientist. It's almost the same job at many companies, but management respects you significantly more.
Jeremiah Russell
fuck I hate this shit. I'm in it right now too. everyone interviews like they need a skilled computer scientist when all they really need is a skilled programmer. ffs I don't read text books in my free time, half the shit they ask me I knew better as a fresh grad years ago, but it's not relevant to work on the job so why the fuck would I make an effort to retain it? the timers on hacker rank are absolutely brutal too. how did we let it get like this? call bullshit where you see it user and I will too. this is the only way this nonsense gets put back in it's place.
Easton Powell
Kek im a data scientist at a fortune 500.
Never got math after highschool, just got in by being friends with the manager.
My whole day is just following tutorials and applying it to business cases. If I get stuck I ask a question on stack overflow and some pajeet will fix it. Everyone is impressed and my guess is I get promoted this year.
I looked into this and this has got to be the most boring shit ever, IMO. Keep the 160k salary. I'll stick to the lowly Linux Windows maintenance.
Jonathan Wilson
take the job if you want to pursue wagieness, get that 2-3 years experience.
Cameron Ross
are you me?
Nathaniel Stewart
It sounds like they were trying to manipulate you into accepting a slave wage. Wouldnt want to work for manipulative assholes, however you have to start somewhere, it may take 320 jib applicatios nex time
Gavin Lewis
They're lowballing you because you don't have a PhD. I would probably just take it given how competitive this field is. Do you have a Master's degree?
Matthew Perry
Kek I know it sounds like a larp but Im not a larp. I think they just found it refreshing to finally have someone who isn't a stuttering math head who cant get shit done and doesn't have business understanding.
My advice would be if you can't get in as a junior data scientist go for a BI function and move from there.
Godspeed
Adrian Green
>be me >get meme cs degree >mainly self-taught but need that piece of paper to get my foot in the door >going in to senior year of uni >applying for jobs >not hearing anything back >not excited about my chances >this spring(so march of this year) go out with /frat bros/ during parents weekend >get to talking with one of my brothers' dad >absolute boomer >sells real estate and owns a condo complex and lives in palm beach >not west palm beach >palm beach >says he pays 15k a month to an IT firm to manage "the tech side of his business" >says its too expensive and he wants to move it in-house >asks if I need a job >says he'd pay me 2/3 directly to manage it >just last week got the chance to go down there and check it out >these guys are literally charging him 15k a month to manage his mls listings and perform exceedingly trivial entry level IT work >tell him "yeah this might be worth my time"
so yeah because of a drunken conversation with some rich guy at a shitty bar I (hopefully) have a 120k salary and a company condo in west palm lined up for me when I graduate
This happened at my last company. A few people figured out how to automate over 90% of the work and the boss found out. Told us to hand over the 'proprietary stuff' and fired us. Amazing how poorly run some businesses are and they just don't care to improve it.
Zachary Martin
>Amazing how poorly run some businesses are and they just don't care to improve it.
With this guy I don't think it's necessarily that. This guy is definitely intelligent and runs the parts of the business that he knows very well and very efficiently. I think he's just stuck in the past as far as what he thinks he needs.
Also, like a lot of small businesses, he hires right out of college and generally sticks to personal referrals(mine of course being his own son), and thus he is able to get them for a lower rate than what you might otherwise pay a property manager or a real estate agent. That said, he probably just doesnt realize the level of work he needs done and so he thinks that with the skills I have(which, to be honest, pale in comparison to most of the people I know) are worth a lot more than they really are.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - your network is unironically your net worth. Amazing to see how your drinking buddies can open doors like that.
This whole story sounds like BS. They probably asked OP to sort a list and explain what null hypothesis is and he completely flunked. Than the one place that's desperate offered him a position and it's $70k minimum. Can you put more effort into your stories please?
Thomas Sanders
That's pretty cool user. I'm a pretty antisocial guy but I've had a few opportunities handed to me via Linkedin. That's the only kind of "networking" I do (basically just me liking someone's cringy article and congratulating them for finding a new job etc). You never know who might be useful down the line.
Carter Reed
>interviewer PhD acts all snobby towards me? ME! >don't even know who I am??! >They DARE to offer me a job??! GTFO Boomers! I'll get rich trading internet coins instead >I'm too experienced and knowledgeable for this bullshit
Most Ph.D.s I've worked under and interviewed with have a sense of humility. The one that was obnoxious, I didn't last a day working for him.
Ayden Reed
Was he jewish per chance?
Ryder James
DS is much more statistical, but actuaries on average make more and follow a more well-defined path. Both jobs are boring imo, so why not choose the better paying one.
Liam Green
It's because you're an autist and you can't handle the banter. I got €52k ($59k) straight out of uni as a data scientist and that's in the fucking Netherlands. CoL is low as fuck here. Interviewed with maybe 10 companies too.
Robert Ortiz
No it's because he's dumb as bricks and thinks being able to multiply two numpy matrices together makes him a data scientist.
