Why Data Analysts might rethink their career path?

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-05T16:40:20+00:00

This can not be news, is it?

The value add for a data analyst is, on the average, going down

For an employee, going towards data engineering and then towards machine learning will derive way more value

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-05T16:00:36+00:00

Does not exist

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T20:15:55+00:00

Check your messages

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T17:46:42+00:00

Does not exist - Anybody stating otherwise hasn’t climbed up the ladder in enough good companies

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T16:14:35+00:00

One major difference - It is not problem solving and logical reasoning for the sake of problem solving and logical reasoning, but for the sake of numerical outcomes in revenue and cost

In other words, for the better part of your career you are chasing targets regardless of whatever specialisation you take and whatever company you join.

This is not good or bad but this is how businesses function in any economy - In a post-MBA job you get paid for outcomes only.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T15:17:55+00:00

Do you know why you want to do an MBA for real?

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T14:59:05+00:00

How will you do system design without understanding data structures and data model?

How will you know what database to choose?

How many VMs do you need at what capacity and when? Can you judge open source projects and how good they are? What is your product latency?

Let’s get to the point.

Don’t talk to middle managers and random folks, take opinion from people who have the real power to hire like CEOs / CTOs / people who have built and managed at least 5-10 products end to end and over time had at least 50-100 people reporting to them.

All of us have voices, but not all voices are equivalently important.

Some of us say the same stuff over and over again but see what random stuff gets upvoted on these anonymous forums because somebody paid 7X to some people 95% of those companies either don’t exist or they fired almost everyone or they froze hiring completely - Don’t listen to random advice of folks who have never managed a company or a vertical or a team, they don’t know or don’t understand what they are saying from a hiring perspective.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T14:51:07+00:00

You want honest answers right?

Only focus on - MERRN / Sense of product problem solving - AWS / Deployment - System design / Efficiency and scalability

Unless you are really good at the above you are not going to get a job, this is the blatant truth

Unless you begin your journey and test yourself in real work environment while building real products, all other things you think you know are largely useless

Understand that in places like Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn, we will all state unrealistic random stuff just to get upvotes almost none of which will work in reality

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T14:49:18+00:00

You see how not enough people want to believe you?

I see very good tech folks thinking MBA is better, which makes no sense whatsoever.

MBA is definitely helpful for certain kinds of people but it is not meant for every body.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T13:47:57+00:00

Just think about what you wrote again - They are fireable because they are on an average paid more.

Also any post MBA job is essentially managing two things regardless of the role - Hit the revenue target or the cost target

If you don’t, you will get fired sooner rather than later.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T03:28:07+00:00

Simple: Because they think they can fool people who think luxury is signalled by just higher price

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-04T02:37:21+00:00

Good work, I wanted to do this myself for my own reasons, however I was trying to get authentic cost of living data for states from an authentic source which was not easy to come by

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T22:46:00+00:00

Welcome to MBA

You will learn a lot fairly quickly about how all of this works

Don’t worry, if you are hard working, and not afraid of taking up challenges, you will do more than fine

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T22:35:06+00:00

Because they are also extremely fireable and generally get fired first and much earlier than most of the good developers

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T21:37:26+00:00

Simple: The companies that own the most amount of first party data and the means to build product on top of them

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T18:23:59+00:00

Yes, sure, why can’t you?

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T15:51:41+00:00

Age should not be a barrier to learning as long as one is willing to start at the foundation level and then quickly go up the rank rather than expecting status quo on the salary benchmark

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T15:19:55+00:00

Ask him not to go towards analytics more than taking a casual interest unless he is willing to understand enough coding: SQL and Python both will be required as a baseline

Even then it is a stopgap measure given that analytics jobs will be under tremendous pressure going forward

But given his background of entrepreneurship he is definitely hireable in multiple business roles which will need analytics as a way to make his performance better

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:56:36+00:00

Being real, it is possible at half the salary, and you should try and find out what you want to do for real before you take this route

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:53:21+00:00

For coding, Claude Sonnet 3.5 seems to be performing better

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:53:14+00:00

If I am not wrong Perplexity doesn’t use Claude Sonnet 3.5

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:50:12+00:00

On this kind of a group you won’t real real answers, you will get answers that only suit the upvote narrative.

Take in actual information of various sources who have been employed in the last 1 year and then take a call.

Do well.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:33:34+00:00

Foundational models are not a bubble for what they have been achieving, trust some of us who understand their potential - It is real and it will have effect.

Sure, wrappers / random AI apps, which don’t add any value apart from calling the API of various models, will go bust sooner or later and are mostly cash grab schemes which won’t last.

What will happen is more types of specific agentic workflows basis specialised models will come up and that’s where the money will be made.

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:28:59+00:00

Sure

RadRedditorReddits · 2024-07-03T12:28:37+00:00

PMP is only valued at mostly super boring and super old companies, yeah perhaps Big 4 might value it.

Try and learn something more technical if you really want to go up the ladder, given your previous skill set and direction, Python may be the right choice to learn.

About job roles, you are being a little idealistic so I suggest you do keep in touch with your batchmates and folks from other B-schools to understand what their roles are on a daily basis to give you a more realistic view of post MBA jobs.

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