I need to decide for a Data Science role between Amazon and Expedia. Expedia - 200k Amazon - 260k We are trying to have our first baby, in early thirties. While Amazon is a lucrative breakthrough for career, worried about WLB, PIP culture at Amazon. Any female's prgnancy experience at amazon is ...Read more
I managed to keep my job at Meta and started my career in 2019. After busting my ass off the last couple years and not getting promoted to IC5, despite weekends/long hours/fighting burnout, I am so unmotivated and so burnt out. What's the point of working so hard if promotions are not guaranteed? W...Read more
Asking for a friend. What should one expect for the first round for business data scientist position (early career). Any help would be appreciated TC 64 LPA, L4
First time user. Get Walmart offer staff data scientist-data stewardship. Good pay in dallas with 270k TC but not like the content. Anyone familiar with data stewardship, data management, and data quality? What is the next career growth? Easy transition to DE? Will require sql and python? Another o...Read more
I am fully aware that the shitty job I am doing right now has no contributions to my long-term career at all.Managers and VPs are using me as an AI who should do as what they told and make millions of changes once they come up with nonsense ideas and say "You know what,I think we should(which absolu...Read more
Asking for a friend: She's worked a career as sourcing manager (supply chain type work) but now wants to pivot to data analytics or data science. Her first step has been doing a coursera course on data science (incl python) and the Google online course for data analysis (incl r, SQL). I'm guessing ...Read more
Hi guys, I recently got 2 offers and just trying to evaluate which would be the best move for me both money-wise and career/skill/progression development wise. BlackRock, Data Engineer, Investor Data Group in APG, SF location TC - 190k Base-140k (renegging) Discretionary bonus - 35k(renegging) Sign...Read more
For everyone that is in the Machine Learning field - What was your career path? Should Data Analytics be the first step and then expanding from there? #machinelearning #machinelearningengineer #datascience
Came across someone suggesting that all FT roles in AMP org have been canceled until q3. How true is this? Source: Read comments on first reply here Check out this post! "Apple and google hiring (Data Science & Analytics Career)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/5BS5es8Z #apple #amp #hiringfreez
I got 3 offers from three companies for business analyst/data sciency roles. Which sounds the best for my career if I want to make it to FANG as a data scientist in a year or two? This is my first job out of college and my degree is not data science related so I want to make sure I am making the r...Read more
I have AWS and development experience, but I am currently underutilized at Meta as a PM Always wanted to get into AI space, any tips on career change? I feel like data science is too steep of a learning curve and requires a PhD at a minimum. Data Engineering seems do able, but it seems to focus on ...Read more
Hello everyone on Blind, Please help me make a decision. I currently work as a Software engineer in Machine learning. I have two competitive offers to decide from: Company: Box Title: Software Engineer 3 Backend with Data Platform - Compute & ML team TC : 260k first year, 245k later(195k base/9000...Read more
Hey all the brilliant data scientists here. To keep it short, mostly I run sql queries, and I am overwhelmed by the resources available to learn Data science. What would you advise me to start with to create a solid foundation for this career transition? TC:110k East Coast YOE: 5 years (first 3 yea...Read more
From reading blind posts it seems that Software Engineers on average make more than Data Engineers and a lot of other careers. Is this true? I am a first year Data Engineer and would like to know the best route to take.
Started as a research scientist in ML for a telecom company. Did amazing stuff and published papers. - ~2 years Left that for a unicorn AI startup. Joined as a data scientist and worked on amazing state of the art ML projects. But got laid off in 7 months. 5 months later, struggling, I took the fi...Read more
Anybody know of a good career coach or career coaching firm? I'm a recent grad from a masters program, transitioning into data science. I'm about to take my first job as a data scientist, and I'd like to make sure I can leverage my way to a better position in a year. #datascience #jobmarket #caree...Read more
I recently saw some openings for data and ML platform teams in coinbase, and considering whether it is even worth applying there. Based on the other blind posts, the work culture is quite intense but some teams are ok. Does anyone have info about the work culture in the following teams in Coinbase I...Read more
I'd like to find out how many people start careers in software but end up quitting within the first 5 years. Does anyone know how I could find this data? Anecdotes welcome! If you started in software and quit, I'd be interested in your story. TC: 315k #tech #software #career
Recently got two offers from uber and amazon Uber: L4/Sunnyvale/Platform Base: 165k RSU: 261k SignOn: 60k/2 years Bonus: 23k First year TC: ~310k Amazon: L5/Sunnyvale/Retail Base: 210k RSU: 350k SignOn: 160k/first year + 120k/second year First year TC: ~380k YOE: 3 Both matched teams are working...Read more