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What are hiring managers looking for in a potential Geospatial Data Scientist/SWE?
Since the use of LLMs has exploded, is having a portfolio still meaningful to hiring managers? What does a candidate need to do to showcase their work without being “accused” of vibe-coding their portfolio projects?
With LLMs, it has become more difficult to distinguish strong coding candidates from people heavily relying on AI-generated code. At the same time, it also feels harder for serious data scientists and SWEs to distinguish themselves in a crowd where many applicants can produce polished-looking projects with AI assistance.
For those involved in hiring geospatial data scientists/SWE, what signals actually stand out now?
u/HonestPassage5795 — 13 days ago