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Next Steps in Career, Advice Please – Meta? Practical? Personal?
I am a data scientist and business intelligence developer. Any feedback on staying or going would be great! Also I am now thinking about leveling up my tech skills or trying out management.
About me
- I have quant undergrad degree and unrelated advanced degree; and getting technical training online through certificates
- I worked in nonprofit for a bunch of years, loved it, but poor
- Haven’t stayed at tech related company more than 1.5 years
Current role
- Started analytics stack and first data warehouse. There are benefits to build a more complete solution
- The rhetoric internally and externally on data/analytics gives optimism to my role
- Started role with unrealistic expectations from management; Unable to get traction to provide additional developers for data projects
- Employees are not as tech or data savvy, as lead to believe, so reporting and bottle neck hell
- Brought on with expectations for salary increase at 6 months, which did not happen, despite excellent feedback. Promised a promotion and salary in next review
- Still things I can learn from the biz and how a company adopts to change/growth
- Company unable to work with my skills --- moved around the company and now in tech product. I have been assured that my role won't change...but I already started doing product manager tasks
- Hours and demands are pretty chill and predictable, which means I have more time to work on side projects and take classes
- People like and trust me here
New opportunities
- Start-ups have more funding than all total investments of my current company
- New companies with less of a track record than current one
- Smaller team
- Bikeable from my house
- I will work longer hours
- More challenges (good and bad) and level-up opportunities
- Work at a technology based company
- Meet interesting and like-minded people
- Issues trying to be tackled by new start-ups align with my values more directly