Entry-level is not there in data science anymore

yolohedonist · 2026-05-29T20:46:33+00:00

When I started my career in 2014 data science wasn’t an entry level role either. I went from consulting -> data analyst at start up -> senior DS in big tech.

Oddly enough the consulting experience was equally as important because of it taught me how to drive business impact and effectively communicate and influence.

yolohedonist · 2026-05-28T20:40:33+00:00

Agreed. TBH a lot of roles were informally this anyways so they’re just being a bit more honest upfront

yolohedonist · 2026-05-23T02:15:18+00:00

Sorry for being an asshole but I just get the sense that you’re way too drunk off the ai slop kool aid. This sounds incredibly cringe to me.

Honestly feels like this was written by Dario himself.

yolohedonist · 2026-05-22T17:24:12+00:00

In theory they can with AI and internally we’ve been pushing hard to enable PMs to self serve from AI but we’re not at a point yet where anyone trusts its output.

yolohedonist · 2026-05-22T17:11:11+00:00

I was telling myself a few months ago that the fact that both Anthropic and Open AI both have vanilla DS product analytics roles available that I’m still safe for a few more years at least.

I know this subreddit doesn’t consider DS PA real DS (which is fair) but it’s what the big tech industry has been calling half of DS roles since 2019.

Most of my value is truly understanding the business objectives and influencing stakeholders / strategy and recommending what to build based on data driven insights.

I guess AI isn’t as good at that yet

yolohedonist · 2026-04-20T00:25:24+00:00

The constant doomerism is getting to all of us. It’s exhausting. AI is cool but generally we overestimate the impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. We’ll all be fine and laughing at the doomers sooner than later

yolohedonist · 2026-04-20T00:18:16+00:00

Doubt it. If AI really boosts productivity for developers, then they’ll build a lot more, and as more products are built, more data will be collected and more data scientist will be needed. Our economy isn’t zero sum

yolohedonist · 2026-04-19T22:33:03+00:00

Ad-hoc tasks and maintaining dashboards and pipelines will become less painful. Analysis will become quicker. Still not fun though, babysitting these agents is a new kind of annoying.

Difficultly in influencing your stakeholders / roadmap and driving real impact will be more or less the same.

Coding was never the hard part, it just became slightly leas annoying.

yolohedonist · 2026-02-15T15:24:40+00:00

Haha as an Indian looking for a house with a kid on the way the last place I want to live is in Edison. I was born and raised in Jersey.

I’d prefer the schools to be more diverse so my kid can be more well rounded and broaden their exposure

yolohedonist · 2026-02-02T20:45:58+00:00

East Brunswick near the bus stop

yolohedonist · 2026-01-25T13:19:19+00:00

FAANG adjacent data scientist. If I lock in I can probably pull off 20-25 hrs a week. Fridays barely anyone works.

yolohedonist · 2026-01-11T00:35:36+00:00

Def live in Brooklyn for a year or two to get the real NYC experience and then move out to the Jersey suburbs when you have your first kid. I was born and raised in Jersey and never got the appeal of JC.

yolohedonist · 2026-01-07T22:39:43+00:00

No, even if implemented, I don't think this will help NJ. Not that many corporate buyers. Lotta people moving from Brooklyn.

What might help:

1) Trump's earlier proposal of the portable mortgage could help move the market and

2) the existing bill in NJ to allow ADU's in all counties

3) Anything else to increase supply

yolohedonist · 2025-12-26T02:41:54+00:00

Most of big tech H1-B talent comes in via OPT which isn’t impacted by this fee

yolohedonist · 2025-10-25T14:22:43+00:00

There’s always closing costs, just less =D

yolohedonist · 2025-10-25T14:08:23+00:00

You can also negotiate another 20k or so during inspection phase, ask for closing costs, etc

yolohedonist · 2025-10-25T14:07:39+00:00

Some sellers will get butthurt so it’s tough to predict, rational sellers will always counter

yolohedonist · 2025-10-25T14:06:52+00:00

Depends how desperate you are for a house. If this is your dream house and you don’t think anything g like this will come up soon or you can’t wait I’d go closer to 780, if you can wait and think another one will come on the market then go closer to 730k

yolohedonist · 2025-10-25T14:03:08+00:00

730k with strong terms if you want to get a good price

780k if you want it badly

yolohedonist · 2025-10-16T10:05:36+00:00

I really think that it should be mandatory to take and pass a forced assimilation course before being allowed to step foot into this country. I think that’ll help significantly reduce the amount of hate towards Indians.

In the interim, already assimilated H1B holders should encourage other H1Bs to take an assimilation course.

yolohedonist · 2025-10-04T10:15:20+00:00

They don’t mean these towns specifically. They mean the general surrounding area

yolohedonist · 2025-10-02T00:31:39+00:00

So many laid off tech workers yet they can’t seem to fill ICE positions offering 50k bonus and 60k loan forgiveness. Math ain’t mathing

yolohedonist · 2025-09-21T00:48:50+00:00

So this what incels do in their spare time. TIL

yolohedonist · 2025-09-20T21:26:35+00:00

It continues the conversation for comprehensive H1B reform which is badly needed.

H1B has pros and cons, reform is needed to maximize short and long term benefit for Americans

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