How are data scientist salaries compared to SWE salaries? Are they the same or is one typically more? It's rare to hear about data scientist salaries anywhere
Joining Alibaba can get you 330 TC as a DS. I'd like to hear about Facebook cases
With what type of experience would that require?
At FB, you would roughly make 10-15% less than SWE at the same level. Base might be similar or even higher but RSU refresher is ~60% of SWE.
Hm interesting. I assumed data scientists would be valued pretty heavily
I don’t think so. The company makes products and SWEs are rightfully valued the most. Also, it’s not that the DS are building sophisticated algorithms and ML models which then the SWEs are simply pushing out. Most of the algos are developed by SWEs. DSs role is to bring data to the PM, define goals for the team, do some jackshit A/B tests and build dashboards.
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