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Valery Babushkin, Head of Data Science at Blockchain.com, is a guest of Andrey Smirnov from Frontend Weekend. The season of video versions of the podcast is on the @razrabs channel. The episode was first published on December 12, 2021. Related links: 1) Video interview before Valera joined Facebook – • Valery Babushkin about working at Facebook ... 2) 8 main questions for a data scientist – • 8 questions for a data scientist // Valery... 3) Valera's page on Kaggle – https://www.kaggle.com/venheads Subscribe to Andrey: / sandark7 / sandark7 And on the Frontend Weekend social network: / frontendweekend / frontendweekend https://t.me/frontendweekend https://vk.com/frontendweekend Audio version – https://podcast.ru/e/6A9j2JIiiv3 00:00 Start 01:21 What can my audience know about you? 02:20 How did you get into data analytics? 11:15 What's wrong with the term Data Science? 14:23 How did he manage data science at Yandex, X5, and AliBaba simultaneously? 22:28 How did you end up teaching at HSE and the National Bank of Kazakhstan? 24:10 Why did you accept an offer from Facebook and why did you decide to leave a year later? 31:02 How was the working day structured at Whatsapp? 35:53 Why did you move to Blockchain.com and what do you manage? 38:12 Was it difficult to pass a management interview at Facebook from Russia? 48:25 How did you become 23rd in the Kaggle ranking and what did this give to your career? 56:54 Why did you start performing and how does your personal brand influence hiring? 1:02:31 Why didn’t X5 launch a frontend school? 1:06:09 Who would you have become if you hadn’t become a developer? 1:07:21 Why did you go to the gym and do grappling? 1:10:53 How did you spend your quarantine? 1:13:19 Why is it worth moving to London? 1:16:48 Cooking with a frontend developer 1:18:11 Advice from Valera