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I work in adtech. We actually had to mangle some of our analytics data because it didn't match the broken data a client was used to. Our data was more accurate,

I work in adtech. We actually had to mangle some of our analytics data because it didn't match the broken data a client was used to. Our data was more accurate, but because the numbers didn't match the other analytics suite the client used, so we had to make it worse. I wish I was joking.

javcasas 1mo ago
I work in HR. We had to mangle our salary analytics stuff because it kept suggesting that clients should pay more to attract talent. Like most employees in the same sector and position were being paid more that what they wanted to pay and that meant our analytics were wrong.
- hinata08 1mo ago
  A (very) large but low paying company that struggled to hire around here also came down to that Managers hired a consulting firm to get a report about why they couldn't hire : The report confirmed they couldn't get application because they overpaid engineers and their job ads were too generous. Sometimes, you just have to use any broken maths to give the only thing that managers want to hear.
alexpotato 1mo ago
> I wish I was joking. I worked for a company that had a gui that ran on customers' desktops aka not our hardware. We were discussing a new feature but we weren't sure how many people used the particular module in the GUI that the feature would impact. There was a discussion about how we could find out which users had that module in their layout and one of the devs says "Let's ask Tom. He's the product manager and he talks to the clients. He'll know!" I then asked: "If you don't mind my asking, where are the individual GUI layouts saved?". I asked this b/c at a previous job I also worked with a desktop GUI but the layouts were stored on the user's desktop which made it tough to access. The dev replies to me "On a server", I respond: "On a server we own and have access to?", dev: "yes" To which I replied: "Why don't we go look at the gui layouts on the server instead of talking to Tom?"

javcasas 1mo ago

I work in HR. We had to mangle our salary analytics stuff because it kept suggesting that clients should pay more to attract talent. Like most employees in the same sector and position were being paid more that what they wanted to pay and that meant our analytics were wrong.

hinata08 1mo ago
A (very) large but low paying company that struggled to hire around here also came down to that Managers hired a consulting firm to get a report about why they couldn't hire : The report confirmed they couldn't get application because they overpaid engineers and their job ads were too generous. Sometimes, you just have to use any broken maths to give the only thing that managers want to hear.

alexpotato 1mo ago

> I wish I was joking. I worked for a company that had a gui that ran on customers' desktops aka not our hardware. We were discussing a new feature but we weren't sure how many people used the particular module in the GUI that the feature would impact. There was a discussion about how we could find out which users had that module in their layout and one of the devs says "Let's ask Tom. He's the product manager and he talks to the clients. He'll know!" I then asked: "If you don't mind my asking, where are the individual GUI layouts saved?". I asked this b/c at a previous job I also worked with a desktop GUI but the layouts were stored on the user's desktop which made it tough to access. The dev replies to me "On a server", I respond: "On a server we own and have access to?", dev: "yes" To which I replied: "Why don't we go look at the gui layouts on the server instead of talking to Tom?"