The corporate shills over at Harvard Business Review call data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century. 99% of data scientist roles are fucking excel sheet munching sql monkey low paying bullshit. Fuck HBR and it’s hype. A lot of PhDs have been baited by HBR into becoming data scientists because it sounds cool and are now rotting away crunching excel sheets. #SWEmasterRace #LCmasterRace #fuckDataScience
No oncall. I wish I was a data scientist Same or sometimes more pay, same perks and better WLB Also , am referring to folks who do ML, modelling and tensorflow and such!
Same pay? In FAANG, it’s on average 40k lower 🤷♂️
For ML engineers? I have some friends who have really good pay. I don't see many data points in levels fyi for ML engineers Also, for 40k diff i will take that job over f*ucking on call pressure
I mean....I’d bang data science.
That’s true though. A lot more girls :(
Is it me or do the SWEs on here have a unhealthy God Complex?
PhD crunching excel sheets? Pretty sure most PhDs in applied math/data science end up using R or python.
sexist they meant?
Better WLB than SWE, same pay, a lot less pressure to produce “impact”, less people understand what you do -> more ability to relax. Oh yeah and you use fancy math sometimes. Most of the time it’s basic college math though, but it’s still pretty neat. I’ve worked with very productive DS before, the kind who do 8 hours of work per day, but many I’ve worked with do about 3-4 hours per day. (I guess waiting for jobs/queries to finish doesn’t help.)
SWEs are paid more than DS. Companies are catching up to the fact that their data is too messy to build complicated models so the compensations speak for themselves.
Depends, at Google Research Scientists are paid way more than SWEs. At Uber I think the comp bands are pretty much the same.
Ignore HBR. They have no clue on most topic they cover.
Yeah it’s so clickbaity. Their standard is at the level of business insider.
They realised that people hate this excel shit so they decided to brand the job. Add sexiness and scienticeness to it. It’s the same crap believe me.
^ this.
Yup scaled Excel analysis using r python and tableau
I think the article you mentioned came out in 2012, no?
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