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If you find a team that is small enough (2-4 engineers), you might find that most of your work is effectively solo. I can relate to a lot of what you are sayin
by BadCookie 4y ago
If you find a team that is small enough (2-4 engineers), you might find that most of your work is effectively solo.
I can relate to a lot of what you are saying. I’ve thought about becoming an analyst / data scientist, but there seems to be more competition for fewer jobs that also pay less. And I’m not at all sure if changing roles would “fix” the problem.
- markus_zhang 4y agoAnalyst isn't very interesting. I spent three jobs to land on a more technical position. Analyst usually just use Excel, SQL and maybe a bit of scripting and dashboarding and usually it's on the lowest position of the food chain. Data scientist could be interesting if you are interested in mathematical modeling.
- BadCookie 4y agoThanks for your insight. The distinction between data science and analytics seems very fuzzy to me. Plenty of “data science” certificates and degrees teach mainly the skills that you listed as belonging to an analyst. It’s rare to expect an analyst to know about machine learning, but otherwise I haven’t seen a consistent difference in definition.
- markus_zhang 4y agoYes it's fuzzy. Given the chance I'd recommend that you speak to someone in the team to know more about what they are working on. From my experience DS teams in "modern internet" companies are doing some interesting things.