Is analytics a dead end?

Seismic Software / Other
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Jun 15, 2021 122 Comments

Is the analytics career path in tech a dead end? What can you pivot to?

#data #dataanalytics #datascience

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  • Microsoft / Consultant
    pretending

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    remember kids: there is no wlb in finance.
    pretending
    An analytics background is a good place to be if you ever want to pivot into a leadership position. MBAs can be a dime a dozen, but understanding both data and the business nuances behind decisions in data is a primo transferable skill.
    Jun 15, 2021 15
  • TransUnion / Other
    PichiPeon

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    PichiPeon
    What do you expect when you ask the question on a platform where the majority (at least that is what I feel like) of people are into Software Engineering? Asking the same question on like Kaggle forum will give you entirely different results.
    Jun 15, 2021 9
  • Intuit
    turbofactz

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    turbofactz
    Modern analytics sets a person up for PM or even GM since itโ€™s all about business decision making. Excellent career path and limitless growth. Much more upside than a back office SWE.
    Jun 15, 2021 8
    • Segment
      gonoo16

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      gonoo16
      Pretty much. Itโ€™s a career change, knowing basic SQL is good to know for a SWE but otherwise no real transferable hard skills (โ€œsoftโ€ skills & general project management is another thing though). So yes, just leetcode + be strong in CS principles :)
      Jun 15, 2021
    • Leetcode is only good for interview prep. It wonโ€™t teach you how to build enterprise level software. DS is mostly writing scripts that donโ€™t need to scale and be maintained (meaning 10s to 100s of thousands of lines of code that have been in production for years)
      Jun 15, 2021
  • Amazon
    handsonโœŠ๐Ÿฝ

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    handsonโœŠ๐Ÿฝ
    Yes yes and yes. Low ceiling, you deal with shitty PMโ€™s and you wonโ€™t ever get the ownership you need to grow.
    Jun 15, 2021 10
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    • Rakuten / Ops
      tooQ10

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      Rakuten
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      Obligatory: YoE 20, TC 43k. Such is life for us non-SWE office monkeys!
      tooQ10
      No, it's run by an electronics-focused university in Tokyo. I'm getting the added bonus of learning how to talk about Python in Japanese :)
      Jun 16, 2021
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