I got an offer recently for FB data engineering and I’m worried switching to data engineering would narrow my career path. Somebody also mentioned data engineers at FB are second class citizens, and as far as I can tell the comp is definitely lower than those for FB software engineers I have seen on Blind. Should I just stick to regular software engineering?
What is your job role as a data engineer?
You will have a hard time switching backing to software engineer if you decide to do that later. (You'll have to reinterview and your skills won't be transferrable) There are plenty of smart and talented people in data engineering though.
Been DE at Facebook for awhile now and disagree about non-transferable skills and being 2nd class citizen. I’ve had opportunity to go SWE and passed every time. As A DE you learn much more about how the business actually runs vs. building some feature at the bottom of a huge management chain. SWE being somehow better is a myth that SWE’s enjoy perpetuating. Any DE on my team could be a SWE with a few weeks of leetcode. But I know very few SWE’s who could cut it as a DE. The only valid argument here is equity differences. That will change.
Exactly same point then why do you pay less to data engineer? Actually even why we have different position? My point was your thoughts align with how managers generally talk, boosting something which might not be true ;) Btw what DE’s do which swe can’t do? ;) Doing SWE job requires more thought. You need to design develop n test production code which can serve billion requests. You need to be more judicious n wise with your coding style n standard. I dont think DE pay attention or follow any coding style.
Lol
I call your billions of requests and raise you petabytes of data
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Should stick to regular software engineering. If data engineering is something you want to do then only go with facebook, dont join because its facebook. I have done this mistake n joined Apple as offer was very lucrative but now i regret that i wasted one year being not software engineer which i wanna do. I just shared my personal experience, devision is upto you.
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Why do you regret it?