Some background, I have a bachelor’s in computer science with about 2 years of experience as a software engineer. I was laid off and decided to pursue my master’s in data science since I found the field fascinating. And it is, large scale statistics and using machines to do stats is fun. But somewhere along my master’s I realized I really like programming and DS was not scratching that engineering itch that I have. I thought data engineering would be a nice middle ground since I have good software engineering skills and I understand what kind of data data scientist would want downstream. But I don’t have skill set for data engineering, I would have to spend months teaching myself and working on projects. I really don’t know if I should go back to applying for software engineering jobs, apply for data science job then try to transition to data engineering, or spend a few more months learning data engineering before sending out applications.
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r/cscareerquestions Some background, I have a bachelor’s in computer science with about 2 years of experience as a software engineer. I was laid off and decided to pursue my master’s in data science since I found the field fascinating. And it is, large scale statistics and using machines to do stats is fun. But somewhere along my master’s I realized I really like programming and DS was not scratching that engineering itch that I have. I thought data engineering would be a nice middle ground since I have good software engineering skills and I understand what kind of data data scientist would want downstream. But I don’t have skill set for data engineering, I would have to spend months teaching myself and working on projects. I really don’t know if I should go back to applying for software engineering jobs, apply for data science job then try to transition to data engineering, or spend a few more months learning data engineering before sending out applications. submitted by /u/VelvetRevolver_ [link] [comments]
Some background, I have a bachelor’s in computer science with about 2 years of experience as a software engineer. I was laid off and decided to pursue my master’s in data science since I found the field fascinating. And it is, large scale statistics and using machines to do stats is fun. But somewhere along my master’s I realized I really like programming and DS was not scratching that engineering itch that I have. I thought data engineering would be a nice middle ground since I have good software engineering skills and I understand what kind of data data scientist would want downstream. But I don’t have skill set for data engineering, I would have to spend months teaching myself and working on projects. I really don’t know if I should go back to applying for software engineering jobs, apply for data science job then try to transition to data engineering, or spend a few more months learning data engineering before sending out applications.
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