commodorepet

It was pretty cool to see that many one-person SaaS survived test of time and actually turned into bigger companies. Let's bring it back for 2025.

Editions:

2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701783

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009

I am a Senior Director of Data Science at a large telecommunications company (think Verizon equivalent). I have a team of 30 (Data Science + Data Engineering) and my work is mostly connecting the dots between data science and business. I am capable of understanding both sides and can go into details if needed. My next role would be VP of Data Science which would mean overseeing all DS.

I started applying for new jobs at a Senior Director/VP level and I am finding that some jobs still require some level of leet code/SQL technical interviews at the beginning. I have not wrote any code for the last 5 years so I am little confused what are the expectations at my level.

I wanted to ask at Senior Director/VP level are you still doing any hands on coding work or just presentations/brain storming/architecture design. I have Ph.D in CS and been IC for 10 years so can easily go back but spending a month preparing leet code seems like a waste of time.