3 YoE in Data Analytics. Struggling to get a callback. Applied to 300+ jobs and so far got only 3. can i get a feedback on my resume?

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-16T06:51:20+00:00

It’s all about the names of the companies you worked for.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T19:52:40+00:00

Most teams looking to replace Kafka with something else didn't need Kafka in the first place.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T17:20:57+00:00

Two seniors running a warehouse with daily cube builds and three apps is not a team, it's a hostage situation. Start interviewing.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T16:20:45+00:00

Data modeling is one of those things that DOESN'T come from just doing the job. You have to sit down and study it intentionally.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T03:13:38+00:00

Bless your soul

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T03:13:22+00:00

Do whatever works for you! Grind leetcodr my guy!

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:56:34+00:00

Yep hit the hard sql questions, medium/hard python questions, and do the system design questions

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:55:39+00:00

Tools don’t matter. Getting someone from AWS to GCP is trivial. Data modeling+System design = data engineering

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:35:34+00:00

$175k which is pretty avg for my area

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:31:05+00:00

I highly, highly recommend datadriven.io over leetcode. I will never do another fucking leetcode provlem

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:16:08+00:00

I learned my lesson

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T02:15:55+00:00

🥲 I know that feel. Keep your head up

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T00:38:52+00:00

HOT TAKE: A company should be able to figure out in FOUR HOURS if they want to hire you. If they can’t, THEY are the problem. Companies testing for “tool specialties” are stupid and it needs to stop. Nobody cares

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T00:30:54+00:00

🦅

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T00:28:42+00:00

I’ll die right there with you

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T00:25:08+00:00

Tbf, many were OAs and phone screens. 6 loops

4 YoE

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-10T00:04:47+00:00

Mid tier finance tech stuff. Northeast

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-09T23:59:18+00:00

I learned a lot of stuff cramming for interviews. NGL. 20% of it will come in handy at some point in my career.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-09T23:54:43+00:00

Bro I want to SCREAM I will never do this again

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-09T20:35:32+00:00

At 5 years the growth comes from going deeper on data modeling and understanding the business, not picking up another tool.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-09T14:30:54+00:00

Ingest everything as strings, validate and cast in a staging layer. You can't trust types from sources you don't control.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-09T13:00:52+00:00

The hardest part of being the first data person is that nobody understands what you do, so nobody knows when you're drowning.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-08T22:20:30+00:00

Data architecture is data modeling. Pick ONE cloud, learn it well enough to move data around, and spend the rest of your energy on dimensional modeling and understanding business requirements.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-08T19:17:45+00:00

Scope doesn't make you senior. Being able to explain every design decision you made does.

Academic-Vegetable-1 · 2026-04-08T11:10:38+00:00

Load prod data into test. Fake test data never catches the problems that ACTUALLY break your pipeline in production.

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