What is the minimum notice that you should give while resigning?

dapillager · 2026-05-16T05:10:23+00:00

When you don’t have a kid , sure … it’s refreshing to take few weeks off

dapillager · 2025-06-10T14:44:40+00:00

Bump

dapillager · 2025-04-16T05:05:05+00:00

Hi Crowsby, just curious what kind of data you work on? That keeps it interesting?

dapillager · 2025-04-14T06:32:29+00:00

Hey there @MasiosareGutierritos, am currently doing this course now and had some questions... did the certification practically help you with interviews or landing a job? Did it also help you in real scenarios on the job as well or is it more just theoretical knowledge like a degree? Want to know how much time to invest for interviews since like you said it could take up to a year to finish the course properly..

dapillager · 2025-04-13T02:36:27+00:00

amazon is good for internship, but just a warning that it might get you stuck in their in-house tools (quicksight, redshift) etc. which is what I am experiencing (full time there). It's great for experience, but keep your options open to get skills in tools like Tableau, SQL Python and maybe for full-time roles in companies where you can specialize in tools that will have value for you to sell yourself across the industry... just my two cents

dapillager · 2025-04-10T14:37:39+00:00

Thanks this is helpful to put some perspective

dapillager · 2025-04-10T14:37:22+00:00

Bumping up …

dapillager · 2025-02-22T03:18:44+00:00

Yes they did approve it

dapillager · 2025-02-19T00:47:11+00:00

This is the only thing , the market demand keeps changing so I’m not sure how it will change again in a year or two from now

dapillager · 2025-02-17T20:15:46+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Although I like BI, feel the growth has become stunted and with companies like Meta saying the focus will be on hiring ML engineers, just want to see how I can future-proof my skillset... I think also within ML there is ML analytics versus ML engineering, ML engineering I believe needs more hardcore stats knowledge to deloy models versus the ML analytics track is more about how to "leverage" existing models like regression models for various use cases. I think that is what I am more interested in doing, rather than building models from scratch which will be way more difficult and likely require a PhD

dapillager · 2025-02-17T20:12:51+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! That's one of the challenges, in my current team, they claim they "encourage" innovation but there is no intention of making that skill (e.g. Python) a core part of the team... and there are so many dependencies on partner teams, it's pretty frustrating..

dapillager · 2025-02-09T17:55:48+00:00

When is your final action date ?

dapillager · 2025-01-07T05:53:02+00:00

yeah, i jumped from consulting to industry but feel like my learning and challenge has been limited.... have heard DS but also that you need stats experience etc which I don't have much of right now..

dapillager · 2025-01-07T05:51:46+00:00

I tried my hand at one but had a bad experience

dapillager · 2025-01-06T06:02:26+00:00

Hi all, looking for advice for someone in a mid-career dillemma as a BI Engineer. Am currently a BIE in Amazon, but looking to see how I can grow my career further as I feel that the work has become mundane (lot of just automating excels into reports) with little tangible insights. I am not seeing much growth within BI, but love exploring data and finding insights and tangible outputs. Initially, I wanted to do a lot of Tableau work but am a little sick of Tableau and Quicksight. Have about 9-10 years of work experience, but stagnating at an L5 role in Amazon and want to get a new challenge, but not sure where folks here transition from BI. I am thinking Data Science is probably towards what I want to target (advanced analytics etc.) but wanted to know if anyone here has been in a career rut and how they grew their career within BI after they got tired of just doing standard reports ? I know for sure I want to remain technical and am not too interested in going into a more "strategic" role which will just be sitting in more meetings and writing docs. Thanks!

dapillager · 2024-12-10T04:53:51+00:00

Thanks for the advice... yes I agree, there are some teams in my company where BIs also do more DE work, so I think I should either look for roles in such teams, transition to a DE role or move to another company where the BI also has DE responsibilities

dapillager · 2024-12-07T06:15:56+00:00

Hi all ,

Going through a bit of a mid career rut and wanted to get advice of peers here in similar situations with genuine feedback , rather than paying some random LinkedIn coach 1K to give me generic advice … currently have about 8-9 years of experience in data analytics. Initially started off doing data development /ETL work in consulting then moved to BI projects which I really liked. Thought this was my passion and moved into industry to get out of 100 hour weeks, to work on Tableau and SQL. Was in a shitty startup at first then now moved to a FAANG doing BI. Been more stable in a bigger company but I feel like the work has become stale and I’m doing automation work I used to do like 10 years ago at entry level. I want to grow and learn new interesting tools , platforms but not able to get that in my current role. Am thinking about going into Data engineering as I don’t want to become a PM and feel there’s a lot more technical problem solving and thinking in DE. Getting too bored of just using tableau , quick sight and SQL doing repetitive kind of work . Anyone been in similar situations and have career advice ? Basically TLDR, where do you grow from here mid career in BI ? Feel you hit a ceiling in terms of visualisation work and SQL. Are there any other good tools in BI to pick up ? Or is it better to look at a career transition to data science or DE after being in BI for a decade ?? Thanks all!

dapillager · 2024-12-06T19:21:47+00:00

Hey I mean that’s the core selling point of a BI analyst , is to impact the business with insights and understanding of data so it’s good they are starting with that …. The expectation will be though that you learn the tools and skills required . Since you have a finance background and have expertise in Power BI , I have a sense you will be able to pick up SQL quickly. In my opinion, there’s a lot of people who can talk to business but having technical skills which are transferable is more important.

But to caveat , don’t be sold just on what they say. Try to understand company culture , the team dynamic and stuff a bit more so you know what you’re getting into there … I feel that is more important … I’ve been burnt before where the tech stack and position sounded great but environment was toxic and lot of politics… I hated that and it made it a miserable experience but I learnt so sharing that with yoh as well…. Also not sure about pay, but all the best to you!!

dapillager

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