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In my experience, many data engineers and data scientists know nothing about software engineering, unless they've had a previous life as a coder. Most data eng
by mtVessel 5y ago
In my experience, many data engineers and data scientists know nothing about software engineering, unless they've had a previous life as a coder. Most data engineers who claim they know python really only know pandas, and many couldn't implement fizzbuzz without a library.
I'm a data guy, but I started out as a developer, and eventually choose to specialize in data systems. I'm continually amazed to find that this path is the exception.
- inadequatespace 5y agoThe reason that path is an exception is that generally-speaking (in VHCOL areas at least), a developer job is as good or superior a job pay-wise to a data science job. Also, since DS is so broad skillset-wise, it's basically a catch-all starter career for everyone that doesn't have CS/ SWE experience and training specifically, but does have some non-CS STEM training.
- inadequatespace 5y ago> many couldn't implement fizzbuzz without a library. case in point: this article teaching them how to do so to pass interviews https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-solve-the-fizzbuzz-problem-in-r-c62e7e6c959a https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-solve-the-fizzbuzz-pro...
- qqqwerty 5y agoMost software engineers know nothing about software engineering. Hop on over to any thread about hiring and you will see plenty of comments about SE candidates failing fizz buzz.