How to Hire a Data Person in the AI Era

Why is everyone now disappointed by the hiring process nowadays, and how does one hire the best match for their data team? I’ll be honest, I want to know the answer to this question myself. I have interviewed candidates for the DE position, and I’ve written those JDs myself. However, the industry is evolving so fast that it is hard to keep up, especially when you have other tasks on your plate. AI is now handling much of the process, and you are keeping old habits while interviewing people: they are effective, quick, and supposed to be fair to everyone. But many would disagree. ...

June 29, 2026 · 19 min · Yulia Afletunova
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Is it a Bubble yet?

Yesterday I was trying to figure out if we are looking at the AI Bubble, or if it is a sustainable way of making a business. The answer I found was scarier than another financial crisis. Today I realised that this is no longer a race of making more money, but the race of nature. Last 4 years of my personal life were quite challenging, and I know precisely that our overall experience changed drastically somewhere around first 2 weeks of worldwide quarantine. And behind the curtains of those inconceivable events we missed something much more important — collectively, we missed the race of being the most intelligible creatures. ...

June 1, 2026 · 3 min · Yulia Afletunova
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The Epic of Two AIs: Art, Intrigue and Technology

Originally published on LinkedIn. The cover image was created using images generated by Shedevrum and DALL-E 2. I’m Yulia Afletunova, and I’ve been working with data broadly for over five years. I started as a product manager, which was based on AI technology. I had time to be an ML engineer, and for almost four years, I have focused on the product side of data analysis. In autumn, I came up with the idea of making a model that would use art images to determine a work’s authorship. Of course, I went to study existing solutions, and so I came across one very interesting story. ...

March 17, 2024 · 6 min · Yulia Afletunova
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Эпопея двух AI: Искусство, Интрига и Технологии

Изначально опубликовано в Telegraph. Обложка создана с использованием образов, сгенерированных Шедеврумом и DALL-E 2. Привет! Я Юля Афлетунова и я уже больше 5 лет занимаюсь анализом данных в широком смысле. Я начинала работу в качестве менеджера разработки продукта с использованием AI, успела побыть ML инженером и уже почти 4 года фокусирую свое внимание на продуктовой стороне анализа данных. Осенью мне в голову пришла идея сделать нейронку, которая будет по картине определять авторство произведения. И, разумеется, я пошла изучать уже существующие решения. И так я наткнулась на одну очень интересную историю. ...

March 15, 2024 · 5 min · Yulia Afletunova