[CoolGuySteve]

I once worked with a "Data Scientist" at a hedge fund that was clearly pattern matching whatever problem you had to some random Apache/Google tool without actually listening to the problem.

  {
    "Unit test" : "google mock",
    "CSV" : "Apache Parquet",
    "message" : "google protobuf",
    "queue" : "Apache Kafka",
  }

etc

His data science recommendations looked like a markov chain of various analysis algorithms.

One time I started digging into his recommendation trying to figure out why it was even on topic and he starts going on about how he's a "big picture" guy and not to bother him with implementation details. The thing was, his 'big picture' ETL was breaking our trading system every other week due to some inane dependency strictness that wasn't necessary.

There's nothing more 'big picture' than not fucking trading!

I guess because portfolio managers aren't specialized in engineering, we see a lot more of these fakers in finance than tech.