[Artgor]

When I had started reading this article, I had thought that it would be a sad story about another startup failure. The blogpost turned out to be a fascinating story of the success. I really liked it.

But after I had finished reading it, I have realized that it is a sad story, if we look from the eyes of data scientists in the team. People were hired to do cool machine learning projects, but it turned out there is no infrastructure for them. After the new boss had arrived, they had to work as analysts for months. What is more sad - the new boss dangled a carrot before them several times, but each time the carrot disappeared.

[machinelearning]

Very interesting perspective. As a early-mid stage startup, you definitely want to invest in generalists who are able to build infrastructure before hiring specialized ICs.

I honestly had flashbacks when the author mentioned the carrot dangling thing. I’ve personally experienced this and as a naive early career swe, I gave the manager the benefit of doubt for a year even though I knew there was no way they could guarantee it. This is just pure manipulation.

The worst part is that he wrote the job description himself and resorted to manipulation to cover up his mistake of hiring for the wrong job role.