“Sometimes we would have huge errors in the work due to the horrific undocumented database we drew from, and no one would ever notice.”
Three data scientists, roughly $400,000 in payroll, zero revenue. The dashboards marked ‘URGENT!’ went unread, and the team could see the view counts. Three jobs in, the author still hadn’t shipped anything that mattered. “Data driven” turns out to be a phrase companies pay six figures to hear repeated.