I am currently working in the field of Operations Research at a manufacturing firm. I am 27 and my TC is ~110K with 3 YoE. I am on H1B with a stable job. I don’t see a future here since the company doesn’t have a great career path for professionals in analytics. Even with 10 YoE, i dont think I will be earning more than 150K. I am also finding it difficult to plan a career path with my operarions research background. The only paths I see are Supply Chain companies or consulting firms(don’t like this). The other path I see is Data Science. Finding it difficult to get interviews here since my resume is all about Operations Research. How did you plan your career path? if you wanted a switch, how do you go about that? PS: My first post. Let me know if I broke any rules here. Will edit my question.
Apply to Logistics companies like Uber, doordash, lyft, Flexport, keepTruckin. They all have hardcore logistics/marketplace teams internally. I have an OR background too and so do a lot of people at Uber.
Do you use OR techniques? Or is the job data science and machine learning heavy? Will look into them. Thank you.
It is a bit ML heavy AFAIK. I am not in the marketplace team. OR optimization is hard to do well and fast at scale in real time. I think it is used in more hindsight analysis. But any OR experience you have can be very relevant. Airline scheduling companies like Sabre, Travelocity, do more OR heavy work.