Consulting - People Relationships
- Be transparent of skills - Do not cook up what you don't possess
- Document what you know, Be aligned with assumptions
- Frame better and be clear on the formula
- When you do not know something, Provide context with some prework than blanket statements
- Know when to disagree with respect, When to ask for help, and When to provide help
- Apologize if you made a mistake and call out how you avoid it
- When dealing with touch people be slow before you try to defend
- No matter what some people will hate you for no reason, Just don't focus on them
What makes a Team Player
- Not a red flag raiser every time
- Be clear-cut in your deliverables
- Ability to prepare/ask questions upfront
- Proactive to connect dots
- Think with clarity or take time to connect the dots
- Take vacation but ensure people don't get blocked in your absence
- Focus on few things than faking everything
Knowledge vs Experience
- I always use to say common sense and domain knowledge helps me more than ML out of box techniques
- Leveraging any out of box techniques is good to solve the problem but being able to communicate to business is key
- I would pick a domain + common sense solution before applying any technique which I cannot justify in business-acceptable discussions
- Consulting makes you take multiple roles - product manager - data engineer - tester - program manager - developer - ML engineer endless :) :)
- Goal-based not task-based, Ability to foresee what others don't see makes an experienced engineer :)
- How to run a meeting, and no, being the person who talks the most in the meeting is not the same thing as running it
- How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
- How to explain a technical concept behind closed doors to a senior person too embarrassed to openly admit that they don’t understand it
- How to lead a project even though you don’t manage any of the people working on the project
- How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else
- How to craft a project proposal, socialize it, and get buy-in to execute it
- How to tell someone they’re wrong without making them feel bad
- How to pick your battles
Keep Going!!!
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