I'm seeing mostly SWEs and data scientists on here. Would love to hear more stories from non-technical members. Job market insights, interviewing experiences and obviously TC if you're comfortable sharing that. How did you get your current role? Do you like it? What sucks about your company, what do you love about it? How much demand do you think there is in the market for your skills?
BSA in finance and accounting domain. Base salary is 145k. Love the job as I get to work on erp and use accounting/finance skills to help accounting teams scale by delivering automated solutions. Ms in accounting and mba in finance from education perspective. 6yoe No complaints..
145k? I take it that you are not including stocks or other forms of compensation? Regardless that is awesome that you seem to love your job. Hard to put a price on that.
Correct.. no stocks or bonus.. base is 145 then stocks and bonus etc.. I would say 180k total Annual comp
Industrial Engineer. TC 100K in Bay Area. I was with a different company previously and it includes setting up assembly lines and dealing with production issues and minimum wage workers who may form unions or have that mindset. That was frustrating. Moved to bay area, took a job with Intel, as an IE doing something completely different. Now that I’m in Bay area, will look to move towards data if I can. Total YOE 2.5yrs.
What about you OP?
Lol sorry, I'm on vacation and I fully intended to answer and then I...fell asleep. I'm a product designer for products that are data (usually B2B). No formal training, I fell into the profession because I was good at design while also understanding math, statistics/econometrics. I've discovered it's nearly impossible to find people who are good at design/UIUX who also understand abstract concepts and frameworks, stupidly hard to hire for this type of skillset. It's also sometimes difficult to find a good product fit in terms of keeping the work interesting because I find most data display problems are fairly easy to solve. I love what I do, but I wish I was more motivated to learn more actual math because I find it super interesting but so far I've been a combination of lazy/busy.
Can you elaborate on “it's nearly impossible to find people who are good at design/UIUX who also understand abstract concepts and frameworks, stupidly hard to hire for this type of skillset.”?
Supply chain management. TC 185
Sales. TC 370k I started out in engineering.
How’d you make the transition? Any stepping-stone roles pre-sales? Also curious about yoe in each?
A true Chad.
Strategy. Yes that's a job.
Digital strategy consultant. 9 yoe. TC $145k. Love the project-based aspect of consulting - always learning and taking on new challenges. Demand for digital strategy skillset is definitely on the rise. So many great tech plays out there but it’s lots of hammers in search of nails... too often people/companies are buying into hype instead of starting with a business problem that needs solving. If you’re a business-minded techie with decent interpersonal skills and drive to do some real critical thinking, it can be a very fulfilling career path.
Business development and strategy. 10 YOE. $240 TC. I like my job. Amazing W/L balance. Broad industry impact. Travel cool places for conferences and customer/partner meetings.
PM/scheduling with 3 yoe. TC is probably half of FAANG eng.. I think the job is okay but theres much more human interaction involved with nontech roles and its draining if you are introvert like myself. Demand for nontech role is pretty stable and at least for Boeing, you can jump into different business roles like supply chin, operation, finance, PM etc. But if I can go back, I would study computer science or related
What is scheduling?
I believe scheduling is prioritizing work on the shop floor while considering factory capacity, supply chain performance, customer need, etc.