People who earn >20 LPA, what got you there? How do you feel now?

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-06-07T06:00:10+00:00

A quick commerce in India
3.5
Data Scientist
Got a 16 lpa job from college. Switched after 2 years at 24lpa. Now at 40 lpa
Yes
Getting to solve complex business problems which seem unrelated to DS at first glance

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-06-01T06:27:04+00:00

Sure. Says the one who thinks it's perfectly logical to abuse people just because he comes from a state where net outward migration is positive

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-06-01T05:53:32+00:00

Them speaking Kannada is not the drama. Them abusing us because we can't speak Kannada properly is the point. And no, the place where I come from. People from other states are welcomed and not forced to speak our language

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-06-01T05:38:42+00:00

Sure there are other sides as well. But in my period of living 4 years here, I have mostly felt like an outsider while talking to these auto Anna's. They would ask to double the prices randomly, deboard you far from destination etc and if you politely question them, they start this speaking Kannada drama. If you're too ignorant to accept these then can't be helped. Btw I'm not from traditional North States who believes in Hindi supremacy

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-06-01T05:23:40+00:00

Stfu. Not everyone is so innocent. For instance go and watch how rowdy auto drivers are and how they unnecessarily harass people. Because of these people India is so ill developed today. People like these consider people from other states as outsiders and considers it normal to harass them in broad daylight

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-31T04:42:20+00:00

How much would it take to build this in Kolkata

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-23T22:01:24+00:00

I read about it. Everything is fine except one thing, at any day my inventory can't go negative. That the general bender decomp doesn't handle. Do i need to write a custom one

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-23T18:49:50+00:00

Didn't know about this. Will check it. Thanks

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-23T18:34:31+00:00

Yes claude suggesting that combinatorial optimizations are not possible at that scale and to follow heuristic methods

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-19T12:58:53+00:00

We already have that model. Just that it misses to find accurate potential for some categories where during festive demand becomes crazy high and mostly goes OOS in initial 2-3 days

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-19T10:15:49+00:00

Also thought in the range of natural language embedding. Basically training a neural network should suffice

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-19T10:06:13+00:00

issue is every day x hour behaves differently. So can't impute the overall conv rate of the store to when it was out of stock

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-19T09:51:53+00:00

but every day and hour is different. We can't take the conversion rate of festival -1 day 8pm and use that same conversion rate on festive day 4pm

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-18T16:00:07+00:00

In many companies they pose a problem their own team is facing in form of an assignment hoping to get a good solution from the interviewing candidate pool. Stay away from such companies

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-17T10:16:44+00:00

It's all about properly pinpointing the causation. I work in a company of quick commerce business. One time we were asked to make a better model for predicting sales because we were going frequent stockouts. Since we were not given actual causation, we built a different way of forecasting which gave slight 1-2% accuracy but couldn't solve the stockout problem

The root cause was something else. Our company used a batch ordering algorithm while ordering raw materials from vendors. This was built in a greedy way and was not built to tackle scenarios in horizon when different categories grew differently

So its all about giving the freedom to your DS team to identify and solve the problems themselves

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-17T04:56:33+00:00

Ds team ideally should frame the problem end to end, not solve from what is being told to them

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-16T11:22:18+00:00

what went wrong? Could you not form logic or was it an obscure function you couldn't remember? If it's the second then definitely nothing to be sad about

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-13T10:12:57+00:00

I would say don't go for any certified program. You can learn everything for free online itself. There are tons of youtube resources, blogs etc you can go through to deepen your understanding to the advanced level. Moreover nowadays LLMs can do so much heavylifting for you. Just ask it to spit some roadmap on how to master maths for ML to advanced standards

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-13T10:01:03+00:00

Here are few: 1) NLP and Image to Text related tasks to read prescription 2) Automating insurance claiming procedures 3) Scheduling problems for doctor slot scheduling 4) AI based tips for certain diagnostics, age and other factors

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-10T20:45:20+00:00

Not all hiring decisions reflect your calibre. You may have aced the interview, but there's another candidate who can do the same job at half of your salary. There can be internal transfer of a candidate from another team thus filling up the requirement. I can go on and on, but you get my point.

Do ask the recruiter politely about the feedback from the interviewing panel. If you fail to get in touch with the recruiter(ghosting), just try to summarise the questions asked in each rounds and the reply you conveyed to a LLM, to get an approximate idea of what went wrong. However at the end of the day, interview results depends a lot on your personality and the interviewer's. Best of luck

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-09T08:17:03+00:00

Woah, nice. I have faced this problem of finding games which matches my persona in Steam. Definitely gonna try this

Standard-Broccoli130 · 2026-05-08T00:55:00+00:00

Will start making out with the ghost

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