I got a return offer as a data scientist with a TC of 120k at Capital One. I thought seems a bit low for a data science role. I have FAANG offers for software dev that are higher but in higher cost of living cities so end up being not that much higher. I really want to do data science and got lucky with Capital one but other companies don’t seem to eager to give a real data science role to an undergrad. Am I being lowballed here? Is it worth taking the short term pay cut to go into data science vs sde or will this hurt me in long run ?
FYI Indeed has data scientist role for new grads.
Oh dang will apply, did not know. Thanks for the help.
No problem, goodluck!
Does seem a bit low. Is this in SF?
Not in SF
120 in a non-HCOL area is not a low offer.
My advice would be figure out where had the best graduate environment. I decided I pick amazon (lower salary vs the two other offers I had) because I met the manager I would report to 1:1 as part of my loop and was confident I would have support. Your first few years in a grad role are about so much more than pay and will set you up for years to come. Is there training? Do you get o rotate around or learn about other areas? Mentoring? You get the idea
Why DS? Eng pays more and has better job opportunities. There’s almost no engineers becoming data scientists, but quite a few in the other direction
Not everyone chases TC.
Capital...one...
Is 120K your base salary that they are offering or does it include bonuses as well? And which location?
Hey can you please share the TC ?
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They don’t do real data science
Idk man I got to do some interesting deep learning work for fraud detection when I was an intern, seemed a lot like data science to me
They DO do real data science. Just because you're not in a tech giant doesn't mean you don't do real data science.