磕磕碰碰-从上海到纽约(中) - 分卷阅读78
事们进入是一件十分有意思的事情。比如说,有的同事总喜欢目不斜视直往里走,找到一个空位直接坐下,然后打开自己的电脑或者记录本子看着。有的会露出公式化的微笑,目光扫过众人算是打了无声的招呼,随后找了个空位坐下。也有的在进门时挥手向大家亲切地说着Hello。总而言之,个人的不同性格单从一个进门的过程就表露无疑。
每当有一个人进入会议室时,李菲都微笑着向对方点头示意。看看现在已经差不多比约定时间超过了两分钟,李菲环视四周,心中默数了一下人数,清了清嗓子首先说道:“Ok, I think we have most of us here, so let’s get started. A few weeks ago, we mentioned to do some an**al**ys**is regarding our inventory and subscriber utilization, and suggested a few approaches. So I tried all these approaches using the data from the past quarter, and here are the results……”
说罢,李菲将PPT切换到下一页……
这是一个十分新鲜的话题,更是相关主题的第一次数据分析,因此整个演讲过程中李菲都不断面临着各种提问。好在这是李菲亲自主持的项目,有些关键地方更是她本人亲自编写的程序,因此对于各种细节都烂熟于心。
“Ok, I think this good great! Just one quick question, how long does it take from beginning to end” Lynn问道。李菲所在的部门一共只有两个中国人,一个是她,另一个便是Lynn。
工作过的人都懂,在职场,年龄并不能直接和职位高低挂钩,而李菲和Lynn便是一个很好的例子。两人分属于不同的小组,要论职位的话,Lynn的级别要比李菲高半级,但在年龄上,Lynn却比李菲要小好几岁。两人其实是在同一年来的美国,但区别在于,李菲是大学毕业之后来到纽约读硕士,而Lynn则是高中毕业之后来美国上大学,且大学毕业之后就一直在这家公司工作至今。
要论在这个部门里资历,Lynn确实比李菲要多一些,但就针对两人的职位高低而言,李菲也的确承认Lynn有她的独到之处。因此,每次开会的时候只要有Lynn在场,李菲都会特别关注她的提问和发言。
“It’s quite time consuming. Our data comes in daily, and each day is about 500 million rows. For an □□ysis like this, we typically need to look at one quarter at least, so the volume is huge. If I’m doing everything by myself, I’ll need probably 2 weeks minimum. One week just to pull the raw data, and 2nd week to do the actual an**al**ys**is. That’s only when everything goes s**moothly.” 李菲想了想Lynn的问题回答道。
“wow, 2 weeks is quite long, especially if we want to do some real-time pacing and make adjustments. ”这是Lynn的第一反应。略加思索之后,她又再次提问道:“How about asking the engineering team to process the data for us If they can provide the data in the format we want, then we can jump to the an**al**ys**is step directly.”
“Yup! That’s what I’m going to suggest. If we can finalize our approach and come up with a standard format, we can ask the engineering team to do that behind the scene, or ev