Hey all I’m currently a nontechnical role at fb doing sales (TC 170k). Previously I was data science at a gaming company and before that was a front end dev. I like different things about each role I’ve been at and have performed fairly well at all of them. Is there a career path that can make the most of my different interests? Things I like to do: building things with JavaScript and python, conducting stats tests, pulling and cleaning data, write ups, working with clients, finding creative ways to solve issues. Things I don’t like: qa testing, managing people, hr bullshit, building internal tools for nontechnical teams. Would love to hear any ideas.
You might like data engineering. Your focus area would be on more traditional SDE tasks but I think you could fill in the gaps
Hey thanks, can you elaborate a bit more on data engineering? From my experience the role responsibility seems different at every company I’ve been at
Build datasets for data scientists and business intelligence. Use Messenger as an example. As a DE you would log and store events that are meaningful to track the success of the app. You’d also be responsible for numbers reported to the street - monthly active users, etc. But also smaller datasets for ex when a new feature is implemented and dev team wants to see how many people are using the feature
PM may be a fit. Or data science
Product management.
SRE or similar titles have a bit of all of that. Generally they’re jack of all trades.
Product management.
Why don’t u like building tools for non tech people?
In my experience they have difficulty communicating exactly what they need, often times they think they are more technical than they really are and come to me with “solutions” they want me to build that are not scalable or even make logical sense.
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