FW: Remote staff

[Dean Collins]

I thought some of you in Sydney (and elsewhere) might like this tweet about “remote work”
- https://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/1124026199292948480

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
de...@cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357        New York

 

[drllau]

there's a prediction that there may be up to 1 billion digital nomads ... but looking at some job ads,  I sometimes wonder what the HR dept is smoking

>We're looking for a Growth Designer (think a mix of Growth Hacking + Data Science + Marketing + IT). Details at xxxxx

let's see, to be competent at data-science we are looking at 3 years maths pref to post-grad level, let's be generous and say a high-school geek so only need 2-3 years industry project management, marketing is now a side-skill with own toolset for bullshitting ... err ... promotional talents, and devops is notoriously hard going from user stories to robust systems ... so good luck in finding a workaholic, charismatic empath under 30 (before burnout stage).

what other impossible job descriptions have SBers seen? (I was amused in my youth finding company seeking FIVE years Java industry experience when the language was only offically released that year)

[Clifford Heath]

On 8 May 2019, at 11:21 am, drllau <drlawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >We're looking for a Growth Designer (think a mix of Growth Hacking + Data Science + Marketing + IT). Details at xxxxx
> let's see, to be competent at data-science we are looking at 3 years maths pref to post-grad level

Don't be silly, most "Data Scientists" are just programmers who secretly regret not having studied statistics, despite being paid for it :P.
\end-caricature-mode

> (I was amused in my youth finding company seeking FIVE years Java industry experience when the language was only offically released that year)

I forget which language designer was asked how many years of experience he had with the language, maybe DHH?

The answer was fun: "all of them" :)

[drllau]

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 09:36:53 UTC+8, Clifford Heath wrote:

On 8 May 2019, at 11:21 am, drllau <drlawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >We're looking for a Growth Designer (think a mix of Growth Hacking + Data Science + Marketing + IT). Details at xxxxx
> let's see, to be competent at data-science we are looking at 3 years maths pref to post-grad level

Don't be silly, most "Data Scientists" are just programmers who secretly regret not having studied statistics, despite being paid for it :P.
\end-caricature-mode

heh ... as an ex computational scientist, I resemble that remark ... I knew I wasn't cut out for applied maths when I passed a masters exam in lagrange multipliers for large-scale mixed integer optimisation without understanding the questions ;-(

> (I was amused in my youth finding company seeking FIVE years Java industry experience when the language was only offically released that year)

I forget which language designer was asked how many years of experience he had with the language, maybe DHH?

The answer was fun: "all of them" :)

Perhaps now's the time to poke fun at HR at the corporate world eg ...

- you're not a genuine data scientist unless you've written a R module that doesn't assume clean data that fits nicely in tertiary cache

- you're not a REAL data scientist unless you've got an R algorithm named after you on a non-trivial real-world dataset (and back-tested on the rest)

- you're not the data scientist unless ... ?

add in your own variant for the buzz-word du-annos