Data Science
I've been in software engineering for 7 years now and I'm finding that these data scientists who are paid more than SEs (at least at my company) are really not that bright when it comes to a lot of common computer science practices. I find it really odd. Any SEs find this to be common? Is there any SE that has switch to data science? Do you think it's worth all the hype?
What kind of an idiot are you? These are mutually exclusive skill sets, dont need software engineering skills to be a good DS. Coming from a DS at Amazon
How many of your SE are experts at taking deep dives into databases, construing trends, modeling, ETL, indexing, or query optimization?
Good point. Also detecting data patterns, statistical analysis, feature selection, and modeling.
Neither do data scientists... Anyone can write sql and call a few python packages
Start getting into more ML and analytics and making the leap isn’t that much of a stretch. But that would require even the most trivial data skills that most us SWE’s frankly lack. Which is amazing because SQL and data in general is stupid fucking easy
Not bright at computer science practices? Are you judging a fish by it's ability to climb a tree?