Experimental Mind: conferences & events 2023

Recruiter Mimi VerLoren van Themaat shares four tips on dealing with questions about your salary without coming across as greedy or modest.

🚀 Job opportunities

Experimentation Jobs officially launched on Product Hunt!

This week's featured roles:

• 🆕 Experimentation Platform Advocate at Apple (Raleigh, USA)

• 🆕 Sr. Engineering Manager Experimentation at Uber (USA)

• 🆕 Product Manager Growth at Komoot (EMEA, remote)

• Sr. CRO Manager at IU Internationale Hochschule (remote or Hamburg, Germany)

• CRO Specialist at viaBovag (Utrecht, Netherlands)

More on ExperimentationJobs.com! Hiring? Submit a link here

🔎 Interesting reads you probably missed

Although many events still need to be confirmed, you can already start planning your year. Let me know when I forget to included an event.

Garret O’Connell and Carlos Bentes (data scientists in the experimentation team at Bolt) share tips on how to use switchback test designs:

Switchback is a standard test design for conducting A/B tests in the industry where there is likely interference between units, e.g., two-sided marketplaces like ride-hailing services between riders and drivers or e-commerce platforms between sellers and buyers.

Georgi Georgiev wrote an easy to digest comparison between different sequential statistical tests popular in online A/B testing

Overview of the contributions by the Netflix team to the MIT Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE).

Barry O'Reilly on communicating tough decisions:

From financial cuts and project delays to salary freezes or increased workloads, communicating tough decisions is a challenge that all leaders face throughout their entrepreneurial journey.

Instead of showing this screen when you start a new streak, we removed the preselected option and forced every user to select a goal. We added a lot of friction!

📅 Upcoming events

Only three events left in 2022:

• 29 Nov: CRAP Talks #20 (London, United Kingdom)

• 3 Dec: MeasureCamp (Brussels, Belgium)

• 8 Dec: Experimentation Elite (London, United Kingdom)

Also checkout the full overview for inspiration for 2023.

💬 Quote of the week

“Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.” ― Santosh Kalwar

😄 Fun of the week

Latest Marketoonist about 'marketing babble':

To be more effective, marketers need to remove themselves from the silo of marketing and learn the speak the languages of everyone else. This is important across the whole span of the organization — from the factory floor to the board room. 

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