stray observation if your data adjacent sql is really really easy to learn, if you spend a weekend learning basic operations and brush up before your interview youll be reasonably solid for most data science positions this is prlly the best thing you can do coming out of schoolhttps://twitter.com/peachblvd/status/1450993542843617283 …
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do slightly more like take a course or something and you can probably make it as a data engineer (dont trust me on this just my impression of my coworkers)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
how much of the engineers’ jobs are optimizing for a specific db problem vs writing queries in your shop?
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Replying to @oskalnikov
hmmm. idk. mostly our interactions consist of 1. me asking them to fix their shit after discovering data quality issues 2. them asking me for the love of god to kill some shitty DS pipeline I built 3. me begging them to build something so i dont have to make a shitty DS pipe
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mostly i think they work on building out, maintaining, and refining our product datasets and other core data products; DS tends to focus more on one off analysis and esoteric data manipulation and design eg we'll typically select a goal metric definition, they usually build it
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