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3 Reasons why Software Engineers Have On-Call Duties, but Data Scientists Don't

It's not because data scientists have easier problems to solve.

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Alberto Gonzalez and Jose Parreño Garcia
Mar 05, 2025
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I’m happy to present Jose Parreño Garcia as a guest author in this newsletter.

He helps tech leaders scale teams, guide aspiring data scientists, and levels you up in data visualization.

He also writes Senior Data Science Lead, a Substack newsletter where he shares his experiences building more than 50 data science teams in his career.

We originally published this piece in his newsletter and now we decided to refine it further and share it with you.

Without further ado, here’s Jose for you.

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