304 karma · joined February 15, 2022
And yes, these types of subjective things can be argued eternally but these have been my observations and experience.
It’s quite concerning too that there seems to be this belief that one can be effective in this field with a weak math background. I recall a meeting with a consultant claiming that they could improve order flow by using ML with a data set that was small and inaccurate. Their background was an mba and a few years of working on mergers and acquisitions.
The bank I was at had the best data practices of any company I’ve worked at by a mile. They wouldn’t hesitate to write huge checks to make sure that the hardware systems and teams supporting those systems were perfect. Software management was a bit procedural but the results were consistent and high quality.