This is like saying that if a university asks for letters of recommendation you should reject them, lol.
Data Challenge after AEA interview but before flyout - Dont do it!
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Skills required by a tech company, like airbnb, are not the same as the skills that most econ phd candidates have. You may be brilliant. You may have an awesome paper. You may have great research skills. But they have a different set of skills they need, and they don't have time to train you. So if you can't show them that you can use pandas and statsmodels/sklearn, and some nice plotting packages, then they're not going to waste their time on you.
The idea that some people in this thread have is that by virtue of finishing a phd, you are capable of doing any job at the aea meetings. Of course that's not true. That's why we have letters of rec, presentations, job market papers, etc.
Obviously, OP won't care about this. But to those interested in tech for future years, you need to know that it is a completely different set of skills you're going to get interviewed for. So focus on those, not 1000 revisions of your JMP. Airbnb won't care.
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I did all of those and I actually did very well but they said no thanks. SO I agree, do not do them. They are not really looking for causal analysis.
So maybe you didn't do "very well." Economists are so full of themselves.
That's like saying you do not know that your s**tty research is s**tty. Dumb argument. Are you a macro guy?