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by nxobject 33 days ago
Design of Experiments? Boring? I'm glad she's showing her passion – I've reviewed applications for people with just "data science" experience, versus people with additional research design experience, and their "traditional" training ended contributing so much more to our resource-constrained environment with small customer samples.

At one point, when I worked in an area with many pilot fabs, Intel was haemorraging technicians with practical experience working with statistical quality control, but didn't necessarily have a lot of formal education on their CVs. Their loss...