quokkafriend

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by quokkafriend 5y ago
Thank you. A lot to ponder. Im actually a PM with analytics experience so thought that DE would be an easier path in than backend SWE...
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
I see thank you. A lot to ponder here. I'm actually a PM with a good analytics background that is contemplating my options. I was considering DE because it seemed maybe more of a feasible leap than straight to backend SWE.
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
This is perfect thanks. On #3, do you know of any public githubs or codebases that are good to reverse engineer and learn an end to end pipeline from? Always like to supplement book learning with real world production-level examples, especi
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Ask HN: Steps from Analyst to Data Engineering?
6 points by quokkafriend 5y ago|9 comments
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Career switch advice (where to focus prep)
1 points by quokkafriend 5y ago|0 comments
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
The right questions I think! Merry Xmas to you too. Yes I enjoy writing code for the most part. Was one of my more enjoyable classes in university and is satisfying to see little hack projects start to come to life. I dislike most debugging
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Ask HN: Late 30s PM career change to dev?
6 points by quokkafriend 5y ago|5 comments
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
What is next for you?!
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
Yea I think this is a top 0.1% survivorship bias. Hitting 2 startup lotteries in a row at that kind of exit. Kudos.
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by quokkafriend 5y ago
My equity grants as a non-eng (but involved in prod dev) have ranged from 0.05% to 0.6% over the course of 10 years in startups (age 25-35). All Series A to Series B. My take is that unless you are very good at judging leadership teams and