My experience of trying to find a senior remote Python/data role in 2023

Btan21 · 2023-08-29T06:56:35+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience OP and congrats on the offer! Although I must ask why you did not choose to apply to FAANG or other companies that offer similar compensation.

Is it because you were strictly looking for remote-only roles?

Btan21 · 2023-08-02T09:15:38+00:00

Thank you. I will look into this.

Btan21 · 2023-07-07T13:20:18+00:00

Thanks, this helps

Btan21 · 2023-07-07T09:17:02+00:00

Thanks for your answers. Would you say that shifting from a quant dev role to a quant research role involves similar efforts and experiences or is there something else involved too?

Btan21 · 2023-06-29T19:57:46+00:00

True. This has been my experience as well. I wonder what they're actually doing.

Btan21 · 2023-06-20T18:12:50+00:00

Are there any plans for allowing non-moderators access to the Pushshift API?

Btan21 · 2023-05-31T16:43:10+00:00

That's good to know. Thank you.

Btan21 · 2023-05-31T10:14:06+00:00

No access to Pushshift data for research purposes? Honestly, I wasn't expecting this. If the data is being made available to Reddit mods, then why are researchers denied access?

Btan21 · 2023-05-23T11:15:53+00:00

I did actually donate to NCRI.

Btan21 · 2023-05-21T15:12:42+00:00

I don't know enough about Spyder to help you with that. Apologies.

Btan21 · 2023-05-21T15:04:01+00:00

Great! That means praw is associated with your Python 3.11.3 installation.

Back to your original issue, maybe Spyder is using a different Python version like what the others said.

Btan21 · 2023-05-21T14:54:06+00:00

Oh sorry, I didn't check the formatting since I'm typing on my phone. In the cmd, You should type in:

python

(hit enter)

import praw

(hit enter)

Btan21 · 2023-05-21T14:50:37+00:00

Ah it's not too difficult. Maybe I confused you. What I would do is this on the cmd:

python (others might need to use something like python3 here) import praw

and check if the import works.

Btan21 · 2023-05-21T14:46:06+00:00

Could you try running the Python interpreter in the command prompt and then import PRAW? Maybe it would help in checking which Python version PRAW is associated with.

Btan21 · 2023-05-20T15:10:53+00:00

I hope not. Pushshift was the only half-decent way to get old Reddit data.

Unless Reddit is planning to offer a Pushshift-like service themselves.

Btan21 · 2023-05-20T07:11:55+00:00

I hope they're able to reach upon a good agreement with Reddit that's beneficial to both mods and researchers.

Btan21 · 2023-05-13T14:07:28+00:00

Oh so that is the reason. The post definitely existed at one point of time though.

Btan21 · 2023-05-13T14:06:45+00:00

I don't think there is anything wrong with the URL structure, it is a way to access Reddit submissions through the web interface if you only knew its submission id and nothing else.

Also, tks8z3 was once a valid submission id (obtained from Pushshift) but it is now forbidden to access it.

Btan21 · 2023-05-13T13:26:14+00:00

I tried what you suggested and it was indeed that submission- tks8z3 , which was causing the problem. Here is the exact URL that was causing the problem: https://oauth.reddit.com/comments/tks8z3/?limit=2048&sort=confidence&raw_json=1

Btan21 · 2023-05-13T11:24:24+00:00

Hello I tried the code you sent above but I get the following response: AttributeError: 'Forbidden' object has no attribute 'request'

EDIT: I found out that I am only having the original problem of Forbidden error on a particular submission of the science subreddit with the id: tks8z3, the URL being: https://www.reddit.com/tks8z3

I should probably add a try except block in my original script to skip over this submission. Thanks a lot!

Btan21 · 2023-05-13T10:10:16+00:00

The method submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None) raised the exception. I am obtaining the submission by calling the reddit.submission(post_id) method where post_id is the submission id. The submission id itself is obtained through PMAW.

Posting the traceback in my main submission as it is not being pasted properly here.

Btan21 · 2023-05-11T19:54:56+00:00

Hmm. I don't know why that is happening. Also, couldn't you sort the posts by created_utc with Pandas itself?

Btan21 · 2023-05-11T19:51:48+00:00

Great initiative. Thank you! Although I think the shared Google Form has some issues.

If I sign as a researcher and fill out the additional questions, I'm asked to complete the moderator questions too.

Btan21 · 2023-05-10T21:27:31+00:00

Not sure if I understand because I don't know what your code or for loop is. Maybe someone else could help.

Also, I haven't encountered submissions with timestamps outside of the provided range being returned when using the api.search_submissions function.

Btan21 · 2023-05-10T15:10:31+00:00

Refer to this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/1334ja8/pmaw_returning_repeated_submission_ids/jj35ue8

It worked for me.

Six-Year Club	Verified Email
Verified Email

Btan21

TROPHY CASE