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Trey Causey writes trey causey dot com, a personal blog at treycausey.com about ai, data and career. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Hiring data scientists”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2014–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Trey Causey's writing on data science careers, especially his post on data science job interviews. One commenter cites it as a good description of how hard those interviews are.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Principal TPM, Microsoft Office of the CTO. Leadership in Agentic Engineering, AI Safety, and AI Evaluations. Former head of Responsible AI at Indeed.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hiring data scientists
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-05
  2. What it's like to be on the data science job market
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-20

What Hacker News says?

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    on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”
  2. Submitted Getting started in data science as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  3. globba22 · 2016-01-15Recommends
    Don't do an internship: you already have years of professional experience doing similar work. In spite of what I call the so-called shortage for data scientists, getting a data science job is a pretty tough challenge. Read this post for a good description: http://treycausey.com/data_science_interviews.html Keep interviewing and applying for jobs. You will learn a lot about what exactly you want to do and eventually…

    Comment linking /data_science_interviews.html

    on “Ask HN: Should I look for a data science internship at age 30?”
  4. Submitted Software development skills for data scientists as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What it's like to be on the data science job market as a story · 37 points

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  6. Submitted Superagency and ADHD as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Skeptical optimists are the key to an abundant AI future as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Hiring data scientists as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Hiring data scientists as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Responsible AI is dying. Long live responsible AI as a story · 1 points

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