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Ep. #9, The Argument for Less Specialization with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs

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Hiring Data Engineers

I think it's much better to hire for hard skills and then, you know, filter out on like those people having sort of a base level of soft skills. So I always wanted to hire people who are like the best people early station and tech team in a data team. They're not to be like the world's best like distributed system, like data bit or whatever but decent at getting things done. And if that involves going through an Excel file and manually classifying text messages, they have to do that for three days. If it drives a really important business outcome, she said.

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