Starting as an IC4 DS (Analytics) at FB, what are some of the best teams at FB to join? AR/VR? Messenger? Instagram? Ads? E-commcerce? Want to transition to management or product management in the next three years. Factors to consider (in order): - Visibility + growth potential - WLB - Exit options in the product space #facebook #teammatch #ds # datascience
Facebook level 4 pays 200 for DS? That's a good chunk less than us, and we're a nobody. I guess DS is way less valued than eng?
That seems a bit too low, but yes at Facebook DS gets substantially less than Eng.
L4 is non senior.... $200-230k is pretty good for an analyst. If upstart is paying their non-senior analysts a good chunk more than that, then definitely way overpaying.
You should recalibrate your expectations to transition to management in 3 years. Two promos (4->5, 5->6) and one lateral move (IC6->M1) is pretty hard to do in 3 years.
That makes sense. Setting aside the management transition, what’s an org/team that values DS more?
Analysis group is econ consulting right? Ive always been curious how people in this industry move to ds in tech. Did you just self learn sql and python and employers dont care you have no practical experience with it?
I feel like analytics is basically applied econometrics. Python and SQL are just basic tools you can pick up. It's harder to train people to think critically about metrics, measuring growth, etc.
Im asking bc i see a fair amount of people from econ consulting at fb ds
Well my role at AG was fairly technical and non-operational, and so I pretty much worked in R/SQL all day. Picking up the business sense might be harder for transitioning from econ consulting to tech. Background is in stats.
And for a pm switch, it’s actually fairly difficult to make that transition as you need a pm to vouch for you to even apply or go through their rotational pm program which is very competitive. The route to management at fb is a lot smoother
So do you think it’s worth staying as a DS and try the management route rather than switch to product?
Can you share TC?
TC and yoe?
Following . Lol, No 1 answered the real question so far 😂
Visibility ≠ WLB