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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

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Mythbusting the Analytics Journey

The Netflix TechBlog

I completed a combined math bachelors + masters program, but without any professional guidance, networking, or internships, I was entirely lost. I entered a PhD program in Computer Science and shortly thereafter discovered I really liked the coding aspects more than the theory. I had the piece of paper, but what next?

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.