Shron: PhD hires in data science often act entitled about personal research
Max Shron · Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 8:20
Max Shron, data strategy consultant and former OkCupid data worker, shares insights on hiring data scientists during a panel on data science career paths.
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“I feel like the people who I've seen hired in as PhDs often have a sense of entitlement about their, how much they're going to have to be able to work on their own problems at the exclusion of the needs of the company.”
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