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by natalyarostova 2126 days ago
It took me four years before I built up the experience and confidence to advocate for myself and the length things take. Now I'm trying to protect newer data scientists"

"Hey, new_hire, can you build this model by Friday?" "Sure, let me just get the data" Me: No you can't. The data will take a month to get. No one is getting anything from you on Friday, because I'm not going to let our team develop a culture where data scientists work all night on thankless failing data jobs.

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Kudos to you for that!

It starts with, “We need accuracy for this problem statement” and ends with “wait, lets find and prep the data first”. Timelines anyone?