Hello everyone, I’m a chemical engineer with an MS in chemistry working as a chemical engineer at Exxon. Not exactly thrilled in my career so I’ve been thinking of doing a bootcamp like flatiron in data science. I’m good with math and have experience with complex analysis, but I lack the coding skills( barely familiar in R and python, not actually useful with them). It would also be good for the refresher on statistics. I would be interested to do data science in a different industry, like tech or finance. For people in those industries, would a bootcamp help get into those roles? For finance I would be interested to do risk or quantitative trading. Not really looking for higher TC to be honest, just a more interesting field of work. I would appreciate your comments and recommendations.
Why tech or finance? Specialty ME who switched here. I did an accelerated MS in analytics to get my foot in the door. I hire data scientists now for my team, and I care more about your kaggle rank, git repo, and project experience than education.
Thanks for the reply. That’s one thing that I’ve wondered about. I am working on a couple of personal projects for fun around fantasy premier league, but my progress is a bit slow. One reason I want to get into this field is because I’m not learning as much as I would like. As to why tech or finance, I don’t have strong answer other than I’m interested in trying a new industry that also employs technical people. What was your first role after your MS? Did you have a portfolio of projects to show for?
Neither tech nor finance is more interesting inherently than chem engineering. If you’re not into money, I’d reconsider.