Interesting to hear his opinion on joining companies with lots of fires to put out. That feels pretty risky to me, since putting out fires is collaborative, and those who let the fires be set in the first place are probably still around.
As for me, I just don't need the stress. It's possible to have hard, rewarding problems to solve without them being fires that need to be put out ASAP. Life's too short.
On the subject of the quality of Databricks, I'm half impressed and half annoyed. As a source of ad hoc, notebook-based compute it's magical. But stuff like proper git integration simply took too long. Further, the lengths that data scientists at my org go through to leverage Databricks in MLOps pipelines could be minimized with a better design.
As for me, I just don't need the stress. It's possible to have hard, rewarding problems to solve without them being fires that need to be put out ASAP. Life's too short.
On the subject of the quality of Databricks, I'm half impressed and half annoyed. As a source of ad hoc, notebook-based compute it's magical. But stuff like proper git integration simply took too long. Further, the lengths that data scientists at my org go through to leverage Databricks in MLOps pipelines could be minimized with a better design.