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data engineer gives data science a run for their money when it comes to ambiguous job expectations. I’ve seen it mean anything from “distributed computing expe
by parpfish 2y ago
data engineer gives data science a run for their money when it comes to ambiguous job expectations.
I’ve seen it mean anything from “distributed computing expert” to “knows SQL”
- marcosdumay 2y ago> to “knows SQL” There are still ways to go. I've seen it means "spends the days filling excel spreadsheets".
- sgarland 2y ago> knows SQL If by that you mean, “knows the commands to create, fill, and select from a table,” then yes. If you mean, “knows how to create a performant schema and queries that will serve them well into the future,” then no, absolutely not. OTOH, IME data folk are much more cheerful and willing to change things than devs when I point out the innumerable ways their DB choices are choking them. Devs more often fall on the side of “we don’t have time for that on our roadmap; can’t you just fix it?”
- zelphirkalt 2y agoIt is often not the devs telling you about the roadmap, but the management. Devs are more willing to fix things, if they are broken, but are not given the time.
- sevensor 2y ago> “knows SQL” Ah, clearly you’ve worked with a better class of data scientists than I.
- WorldMaker 2y agoI've worked with people where "knows SQL" meant "knows the Access query builder UI, sort of, and demands the ability to query Production databases with the awful SQL auto-generated from the Access UI".