[hansvm]

At YT, I hated that you needed two weeks of prep for the meeting to uncover two weeks of prep for the meeting where you could get preliminary access to the data source you needed to figure out if your job description was even viable.

I get that you need internal controls or whatever, but just log my queries, and if I'm stalking an ex then fire and sue me. It's hard to optimize conversion rate for superchat or whatever if it's a 3-month process to find out if the source of data I plan to use is actually the right source of data.

Is Apple any better? My friends on the inside say it's worse, but I'm also just one guy, and their stock is going up and to the right. Make your own decisions.

[isleyaardvark]

> and if I'm stalking an ex then fire and sue me.

I agree that's really frustrating but that's probably the worst example you could use. Real "can't unring that bell" stuff.

[tombert]

Getting data, even for live systems, wasn't too hard as long as you weren't doing anything secret during a trading blackout window, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.

I didn't work with data science though, my stuff was generally limited to database queries and log messages.