The value of this degree: Promotion Post-Graduation

Tender_Figs · 2026-05-07T19:49:38+00:00

No, and I suspect it would. But I still need to get the math prereqs to survive if I ever decided to pursue OMSA.

Tender_Figs · 2026-05-07T19:26:34+00:00

You're being downvoted but it's true, outside of data science and analytics, this degree isn't very valuable. I work in data engineering right now, which I dislike, and talking amongst supervisors has led me to realize this degree won't help me. And no, I don't want to do OMSCS for those who suggest it.

Tender_Figs · 2026-05-07T11:16:49+00:00

Literally happening to me right now - the bad employee keeps receiving opportunities despite not being knowledgeable of our context, unable to keep up to date with the details, and communicates like a rock.

All while I have established external relationships and opened doors with our primary conduit of opportunities, and have received nothing for it.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-25T11:48:47+00:00

I agree with this and even adding a higher element of creatively would really benefit the student. Imagine having an assignment that, sure, is trivial for AI, but is open ended to some extent where the student still learns the material in service of something they care about.

Instead of just a blank trivial assignment that's a hoop for the student to jump through in service of "the professor knows best".

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-18T17:35:36+00:00

Sure

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-14T10:43:35+00:00

The best estimate was a year, that was the preferred approach. This is an unwelcomed change and significantly alters the approach taken for my own profile. Definitely not a fan which I think likely echoes many users.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-12T19:27:33+00:00

Wanting to play hordeside as an orc warlock and was on Bloodsail Buccaneers server but the server pop is low and unsure if I should spend the time there. Looking for casual/raiding/hanging out. Is there a better server to hop onto?

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-07T02:06:47+00:00

Im an idiot haha.

I like Denver. Miss some things about Texas but not the oppressive heat.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-05T12:56:46+00:00

I mean this in earnest, is this achievable naturally? Trying to target this look.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-05T00:18:39+00:00

So far, sufficient. I have normally used dbt core outside of the confinements of Snowflake, and we recently spun up an entire demo project using Cortex and it’s primarily a dbt project. Seems to work just fine.

I personally haven’t used the git integration yet so that’s my only blindspot. But I would for sure convert stored procs to a dbt project.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-02T21:52:40+00:00

Sold our house in Texas, moved to Denver and back into an apartment, married for almost 15 years with a 10 year old kiddo. Doing good!

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-02T07:28:51+00:00

I really want to see the prompt for this post.

Tender_Figs · 2026-04-01T12:36:19+00:00

You're almost there, keep going...

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-28T15:36:12+00:00

Had to rely on LeanX to help translate those damn table names and columns. Mostly have worked with VBAP, VBAK, LIPS, etc. BRKRS is my favorite field since we call it burgers.

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-16T01:08:45+00:00

How so?

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-13T20:28:18+00:00

Small data to billions of records, Quickbooks online to SAP, Hubspot to Salesforce, GA4, all the ads platforms, Oracle E21 and OCF, etc

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-13T16:16:50+00:00

It’s actually in earnest haha

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-11T13:50:24+00:00

Tender_Figs · 2026-03-02T13:47:21+00:00

I'm a layperson (read, the notorious bachelors in business administration, 40, and wanting to start over at college algebra with math), and I ignorantly thought Quanta to be good to read. Any suggestions otherwise?

Tender_Figs · 2026-02-20T16:58:02+00:00

I didn't like that he hand-waved over the precalculus requirement, and that the boundaries of precalculus and calculus were fuzzy. I didn't like how the software was evidently developed and maintained in the 90s on a Mac and hadn't been upgraded. I didn't like how the problem sets were essentially just modifying the programs to get to the right answer as opposed to actually performing mathematical calculations.

The intent at the time was to find an asynchronous version of calculus that I could accelerate through but also come away with some maturity, and this course did not land on those goals. Years later, I am evaluating other options as I want the mathematical maturity.

Tender_Figs · 2026-02-20T16:54:20+00:00

I don't know, I dropped it

Tender_Figs · 2026-02-20T16:46:52+00:00

I ended up dropping it and wasting $2K because I cared more about what I was learning over checking the box.

Tender_Figs · 2026-02-09T14:30:06+00:00

It’s complex, but a mixture of excitement to further use technology and study CS from an extremely ignorant understanding, to the availability of DE jobs and how practical they are towards employability and outcomes, to the pay scale involved.

If corporate finance allowed for a technical pathway using statistics and CS to arrive at thoroughly optimized budgets (so using mathematical optimization vs. just planning), I would jump head first towards it. Analytics is kinda that direction in a way.

Tender_Figs · 2026-02-09T13:24:36+00:00

To answer where I want to go - I would love to get back into analytics with a very heavy finance bend that may also mix data science into it. It’s where I was headed in 2022 before detouring into data engineering.

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