Most of these people are listed as still working at SoundCloud - what is the "explain it like I'm five" about this document? Did all of the employees just get laid off and I missed that news?
looks like ELI5'd it to yourself haha
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#22OK, completely out of topic, but it's interesting to notice how broadly they use the term "data science". This goes to confirm my thinking that data science is becoming more and more an "all around data". The various facets of data science I am seeing in this spreadsheet: - BI - Data visualization - Data engineers - Statistician - Warehouse - SQL - Python-fu - Marketing I look at it and I think it's a great prove tha…
This is a notoriously difficult topic to pin down.
For people that genuinely want to tease it apart, there are useful ways to do it, such as:
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/six-categor...
A bit of transparency goes a long way. Where I work (Casetext), our data team does a mix of traditional data engineering, machine learning, graph algorithms, NLP (a mix of off-the-shelf and custom work), information retrieval, customer/market analytics, and experimental design. For us, and probably many other companies in this situation, it helps us to know what a candidate is interested in and good at. It also helps explain what we do to another level of granularity.
Yes, the "data science" label is pretty muddled. It happens (but it is understandable) probably because of the fuzziness of the topics and differing communication styles and goals of engineers, marketers, salespeople, and investors.
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#23If anyone on this list is interested in working at Reddit, we're hiring a ton of people in Engineering and other departments in SF! Check out our jobs page: https://about.reddit.com/careers/#jobs-16253
If anything seems interesting, you can email me at saurabh.sharma at reddit.com
From an engineer's perspective, it's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a company that's only now building out most of their tech stack. We get quite a lot of traffic and it's very interesting to work at this scale.
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#24The top of the spreadsheet says, "For companies currently hiring, please add your details to the second tab", but I'm seeing the spreadsheet in readme-only mode. Can the creator of this spreadsheet comment on how companies can edit it, please (or whether it's permanently locked now)?
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#25I may have lost current trends, but this is very disturbing to me. Putting up this data together is very disturbing and to be honest somewhat desperate in my eyes. Cannot these guys find jobs themselves, they must be sold in a bundle, or what is the idea behind? I believe the startup bubble is starting to slowly drain, and we'll see more and more of this.
It's just a group of people who've all been already vetted by a respected software company and who are all in a tough situation simultaneously due to no fault of their own. As long as their involvement is voluntary I don't see anything to be concerned about here.
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#26I may have lost current trends, but this is very disturbing to me. Putting up this data together is very disturbing and to be honest somewhat desperate in my eyes. Cannot these guys find jobs themselves, they must be sold in a bundle, or what is the idea behind? I believe the startup bubble is starting to slowly drain, and we'll see more and more of this.
Unfortunate that your perception is that this is a desperation play. I think the intent is the exact opposite of that. The startup souffle might be deflating for sure, but I think the intent here is to say: "We just had to layoff 40% of our staff yesterday. Through no fault of their own, our folks are now jobless. Can the community help?"
I love the fact that people are prepared to be so open about this. Wish it would happen more. I don't know anything in detail about these people and their work, and so won't name names, but there are certainly people there that I recognise as quite impressive and I don't read this as desperation, just a neat response to an unexpected situation.
(edit: well, I wouldn't name names even if I did know more about their work. That would be uncouth)
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#27What a shame, SoundCloud is/was a great service.
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#29Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com/careers
If you're a scala engineer in sf who knows finagle, we're hiring. Plus, pretty much everything else.
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#30I may have lost current trends, but this is very disturbing to me. Putting up this data together is very disturbing and to be honest somewhat desperate in my eyes. Cannot these guys find jobs themselves, they must be sold in a bundle, or what is the idea behind? I believe the startup bubble is starting to slowly drain, and we'll see more and more of this.
The reason I usually hear: Good engineers almost always have jobs and usually aren't looking to change. When large layoff events happen good and bad engineers lose their jobs. This gives other companies an opportunity to recruit better talent with less effort than usual and, if they're really lucky, recruit entire teams that have worked together before.