Transitioning to Data science career

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Jan 17, 2020 5 Comments

Background: 12 YoE. Engg degree with 4 yrs of SDE experience, + MBA + Product & Analytics roles last position was Principal PM in mid size ad tech firm. I have experience with working with DS teams in a no of areas like predictive analytics and NLP. I was thinking of transitioning into Datascience role because
a) Quite a few companies are not willing to sponsor h1-b for product roles but are fine with DS.
b) Pay packages are pretty good.
c) I was always fairly technical and hands on with SQL/ HiVe and have used myrid of analytics tools like Tableau/ GA/ Adobe etc and some experience with R. I like working with Data.

questions
a) If i were to do a few courses in Coursera and others, can i credibly make a transition as a data scientist. What courses are valued?
b) At what level can i hope to come in considering my past experience?
c) what other things would you look for in a candidate transitioning to DS.
d) Those who have made a transition in the past, please share how you did it.

Thanks for your input!

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      This is very helpful thanks. I am on a break now, but my last TC was 200k USD.
      Jan 17, 2020
  • You want to become an MLE ?
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      The way I have seen is that data scientists are more focused on building models which solve a business problem vs MLE are focused on coding it as a complex system. I am more interested in former.
      Jan 17, 2020
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    Sorry new here. What is the first rule
    Jan 17, 2020 0