Not asking about procrastination, actual job duties. For me it has to be working on spreadsheets and presentations. What are the bottlenecks in your workflow?
My whole job
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Stupid coding mistakes. Working with faulty data.
Used to be meetings, but we have embraced an anti-meeting culture, replacing it with asynchronous communication.
edit: typo.
How’s async treating you?
Treating me alright. Took some time to get used to, but all in all, I think it was a positive change.
Answering questions, documenting, integrating models into backend applications, and understanding product concerns. A few years ago I would have said data cleaning or model tuning but these processes have become much more mature in the companies I have worked at so i can’t afford to spend as much of my time there.
Forms :(
Lunch
Daniel
data reconcilliations :(
Loading data. It can take forever to pull my data from whatever database it is in through the VPN internet slow down. Each ask tends to come from a different table, that is just the same original large table, but with whatever org’s own special column(s), so it’s never the same table. Each one tends to take about 30mins to load, if the kernel doesn’t crash while loading it
Power point presentations
Do you have any alternatives? Are you mostly going from a Jupyter Notebook to a powerpoint?
Data pre-processing.
The startup I work at is fairly small so we don’t really have anyone who deals with the data itself (e.g., data engineers, data scientists, etc.). That leaves the MLEs to do most of the grunt work.
The people.
Data annotation if there is no training data for computer vision task.
Waiting for IT to install/change things. I don’t have admin access on my work machine. Or endless meetings.
Dealing with the moronic decisions of business majors and their attention seeking attitudes