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It took me almost 6 years to both teach myself enough (part-time) while working full time and moving my career in a direction that enabled me to get hired as a
by the_watcher 7y ago
It took me almost 6 years to both teach myself enough (part-time) while working full time and moving my career in a direction that enabled me to get hired as a data scientist. The raise I got at my first DS job relative to what I was making was more 17% (and would have been a 100% raise on my first job). If Lambda School could have enabled me to get that job in one year, the payoff is pretty obviously worth it.
- bllguo 7y agobut specifically for DS i doubt lambda school or anyone else could land you a job in a year going from 0->100. from what i can tell the market is looking for either advanced degrees or many many years of experience.
- the_watcher 7y agoI had a liberal arts BA and wrote my first line of _any_ code a year after graduating. When I got my first DS job, I only had 5 years of (non-DS analyst writing SQL) experience.
- bllguo 7y agocongrats! that's pretty impressive. i'm just skeptical this could be achieved at scale.. data _analyst_ is a different story
- the_watcher 7y agoEven getting a data analyst job in one year would have been worth it.