I’m a BIE L5 at Amazon and basically fed up of working with PMs and creating reports. There’s no real progress I am making and my team is full of PMs and CMs who treat us as data monkey. I’m tired of dealing with these PMs where they don’t have basic understanding of data and ask the same questions time and again. Moreover times when there are genuine data or technical issues, they don’t understand and I feel they just think BIEs are slacking. As a recent example, requirements gathering for a dashboard takes 1 month and they want the dashboard to be built in a week. I really wanted to go into data science but I feel any business facing role would be the same. Is data engineering the correct path? I am pretty confident with SQL with 5 years of experience. I also want to upskill myself for the next 3-4 months before applying for jobs. Please suggest areas of improvement. I want to get good with python as I feel it is quite necessary for engineering roles. I have basic knowledge but suggestions on websites/courses or projects is welcome. Any kind of help is appreciated! TC: 160K #data #dataanalytics #datascience #dataengineer #apple #google #microsoft #spotify #meta #amazon #airbnb #adobe #expedia #linkedin #stripe #walmart
Pretty much feel the same. I’m looking to transition as well. Just Created a discord if folks are interested- https://discord.gg/NAfayfk9 For BI folks looking to transition to Analytics Engineer/Data Engineer/ DS Product Analytics
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Data science is going to be even worse unless you are strictly doing ML or working in core eng away from business people. Try for analytics engineering for a lateral sort of move or data engineering, but the latter will require more prep. Source: me, a serial data job hopper, who was also fed up with data illiterate PMs, paper pushers, and robotic corporate blowhards who don’t know what they’re asking for and don’t do any real work. Disclaimer: have not made final switch to DE but getting close If you know basic python and have a decent understanding of data structures and algorithms and know the very basics of git, that’s all you need, so long as your sql skills are top notch. Depends on company and their requirements but for YOE, no need to reinvent the wheel and become expert in python unless you just want to. Focus more on concepts and DE interview strategies. System design is the biggest way you should upskill, understand different database types and trade offs etc.
Any resource for system design?