When I tried to hire data engineers under that title I got a ton of resumes from people with very poor programming skills. It wasn’t until I swapped the job tit

When I tried to hire data engineers under that title I got a ton of resumes from people with very poor programming skills. It wasn’t until I swapped the job title to “software engineer” and put the data engineering details in the description that I got resumes from people with appropriate skills. The main issue with good programmers is that you need to make sure that candidates know what the job entails and are onboard with it. There are definitely complexities involved but by and large it isn’t the type of work that CS programs glorify as “interesting work”.