Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Consultant to data scientist at Spotify, managing ADHD -Felicia Rutberg-the data scientist show047
Felicia Rutberg is a product strategy and analytics manager at Snap, previously she was a product data scientist at Spotify. She started her career as a management consultant at Accenture. She studied mathematics and cognitive psychology at the Vanderbilt University. Felicia reached out to me on Linkedin because she wanted to share how she became a data scientist while having ADHD. Today we’ll talk about product analytics at Spotify and Snap, her career journey, and ADHD. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.
Daliana's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu
Daliana's Twitter: twitter.com/DalianaLiu
Felicia's Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/feliciarutberg
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:01:29 from management consulting to data science
00:12:20 financial data analyst at Spotify
00:20:06 the etiquette of internal job transition
00:25:57 product data scientist at Spotify in the econometrics team
00:29:33 how she became more vocal on the creative process
00:33:48 how to get the last 1% of the work done
00:38:53 how to ensure the quality of the analysis
00:42:05 the various projects she worked on
00:50:19 propensity score matching at Spotify
00:57:09 how to validate causal inference outcomes
01:00:51 lessons from working with economists
01:03:54 lessons from working on survey analysis
01:10:18 tips for interviewing people
01:19:16 from Spotify to Snap
01:27:35 salary negotiation
01:34:02 day-to-day at Snap
01:38:33 Spotify vs Snap
01:44:35 lessons from management consulting that helped her data science journey
01:47:37 ADHD and self-compassion
02:02:52 the books she recommended
02:08:26 her future career
Consultant to data scientist at Spotify, managing ADHD -Felicia Rutberg-the data scientist show047
Felicia Rutberg is a product strategy and analytics manager at Snap, previously she was a product data scientist at Spotify. She started her career as a management consultant at Accenture. She studied mathematics and cognitive psychology at the Vanderbilt University. Felicia reached out to me on Linkedin because she wanted to share how she became a data scientist while having ADHD. Today we’ll talk about product analytics at Spotify and Snap, her career journey, and ADHD. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.
Daliana's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu
Daliana's Twitter: twitter.com/DalianaLiu
Felicia's Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/feliciarutberg
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:01:29 from management consulting to data science
00:12:20 financial data analyst at Spotify
00:20:06 the etiquette of internal job transition
00:25:57 product data scientist at Spotify in the econometrics team
00:29:33 how she became more vocal on the creative process
00:33:48 how to get the last 1% of the work done
00:38:53 how to ensure the quality of the analysis
00:42:05 the various projects she worked on
00:50:19 propensity score matching at Spotify
00:57:09 how to validate causal inference outcomes
01:00:51 lessons from working with economists
01:03:54 lessons from working on survey analysis
01:10:18 tips for interviewing people
01:19:16 from Spotify to Snap
01:27:35 salary negotiation
01:34:02 day-to-day at Snap
01:38:33 Spotify vs Snap
01:44:35 lessons from management consulting that helped her data science journey
01:47:37 ADHD and self-compassion
02:02:52 the books she recommended
02:08:26 her future career
