Note that American Airlines and NCLH is in a tax free state and American and Delta give me unlimited free flights Note too that if I take American I don’t have to pay for housing, utilities, car/insurance/gas, and food as it is all free for me. I am also on fast-track to senior role(in around 1 year). Yoe 2 years
Yoe
2 years
I worked for AA early in my career (mid 90s) even then non rev travel was hard to book - if you take this make sure you take advantage that’s my big regret that I didn’t use it enough though that was partly due to stingy PTO policy - sure you can travel but do you get enough time off to really use it?
Also TX has no income tax but property taxes make up for it- if you buy a house that’s a big bill
Don’t worry about taxes that much. Look up tax burden tables or calculators by state and you’ll see states are more similar than people imply.
What does Data engineer do?
Depends on the company. Could be barely engineering like using some BI tools, building an ETL system, or building data platform and tooling for ML workflows. https://realpython.com/python-data-engineer/ I don’t fully agree with the MLE distinction at the end - MLEs more often these days do the data platform and tooling work, handling the model development lifecycle outside of model building, but that’s very much org dependent.
Can you share what was covered in the interviews? How technical were the questions? My gut tells me: SQL Data modeling ETL Python (manipulation of lists, strings, data frames) Some cloud familiarity
Yeah that’s basically it
We’re the questions particularly hard at all?
AA has great benefits for travel
Are you working on work visa ?
No I’m a citizen
Good for you. Congratulations 🎉
At this point make your decision between Miami vs Dallas based on which city fits you the best
You might not have income taxes in Texas, but it is made up in property taxes and or in your rent. Florida’s hidden burden is high home insurance rates.
> American and Delta give me unlimited free flights Is this for real? Damn good stuff
Usually free standby flights, so you don’t have a guaranteed spot and can get bumped. But it is a great perk.
It’s not that great. Popular destinations are packed full these days. You’ll spend days at the airport