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There was a post on Blind a few days ago from somebody who works in Zillow, stating that management disregarded models and decided to go instead with "intuition"


That post tracks with some of my experiences working in forecasting. Senior leadership loves the DS team until they are told something may not work how they want or reaching their quarterly KPI (which is often tied to their bonus) is infeasible/a bad idea.

This is a generalization, and has happened a couple times in my career. I feel lucky now to be at an organization where this is no longer the case.


This seems to be the thread. I’m not sure how to link to the specific reply. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Zillowers-what-happened-fXvbZ...


What is Blind? I tried searching various things but just keep getting results for accessibility.


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