Netflix data scientists are free to choose their own tools
Savin Goyal · Fireside Chat: Savin Goyal (ML Infra team (Metaflow), Netflix) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Feb 17, 2021 · at 19:51
Savin Goyal, Tech Lead for Netflix's ML Infrastructure Team, explains how Netflix's corporate culture influences software adoption among internal data science teams.
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“Netflix has this really interesting corporate culture of freedom and responsibility. Which means that our data science teams, they are essentially free to use whatever tooling that works best for them.”
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