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I know different companies have different requirements, ideally I’d break into one with more general lenient skillset requirements and gain even more skills from there! I am currently a Data Analyst in Sales Strategy Analytics at Salesforce and I want to level up but be more technical instead of a middle manager. I have the following skills: SQL, Tableau, Excel, Alteryx, Beginner Python, Beginner Einstein Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) I did my undergrad 3 yrs ago, and I did some calculus and stats course but I pretty much forgot everything :,(. Any thoughts or guidance?
Phd is a must
Don’t need PhD if you don’t go to FAANG. Data scientists at some companies are glorified DA. Work into that title at one of those places, learn math+stats+Python as much as possible on the job and in free time, make portfolio of artifacts on a GitHub acct, apply to M or AZ in a couple years
What’s M or AZ?
Meta or Amazon
I went from DA to DS in an year. I have my masters degree though. But none of the courses gave me those special skills for DS. So I learnt some ML and python solving Kaggle problems, understood the basics, crammed some DS interview questions, and learning/using while solving kaggle problems. when applying, I boosted my resume by adding the keywords for DS, got through my interviews with the knowledge I gathered from above. All the best.
Join a company that has both DA & DS, ask your mgr to have a development plan to transition internally . Also , start meeting with Ds hiring managers on their needs .
Get masters + phd you’ll be set.