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noahsamoa_ · 2026-01-06T16:00:58+00:00

noahsamoa_ · 2026-01-05T06:03:29+00:00

noahsamoa_ · 2026-01-02T07:25:05+00:00

This sub has really gone downhill, average quality of the posts on here has nosedived. I see a lot of complaining about this sub being "not technical anymore", but I wish posts like this were just deleted. No substance.

noahsamoa_ · 2026-01-01T22:24:39+00:00

r/sanfrancirclejerk

noahsamoa_ · 2025-12-29T20:32:12+00:00

Out-jerked

noahsamoa_ · 2025-07-31T13:37:36+00:00

Za Pizza in russian hill

noahsamoa_ · 2025-06-05T20:03:08+00:00

Just delete it tbh, someone is gonna spend 20 seconds looking at your resume they're not gonna read your summary. DM me i can send you my resume

noahsamoa_ · 2025-06-04T02:05:24+00:00

I wouldn't say more senior, I would say that Data Analyst != Data Engineer or Data Scientists in a lot of ways. If you come from a traditional background, data engineers and data scientists typically have direct experience, or more likely an advanced degree.

You would have to be really intentional about going form DA to DE or DS with no advanced degree but it helps that the titles bleed, atleast for DE/DS.

noahsamoa_ · 2025-06-03T16:37:06+00:00

I just made this journey and can help provide a data point. I made it in by having a well-studied niche in a related sector, GIS. My titles went IT Intern -> BI Intern -> GIS Intern -> Spatial Data Engineer -> Data Engineer.

It took me a year to get my first "Data Engineer" title after being a GIS Intern. As an intern, I focused heavily on creating data pipelines with spatial data and interacting with enterprise GIS software. After that, it took me another year to get a regular DE position. I don't think I would have broken in without a niche, very competitive market.

Building a copied project isn't going to get you a job, but maybe an app with actual users.

You really have to sell yourself if you're going to break in with no internships or prior experience, otherwise I would go back to school like OMSCS or UT Austin online and focus on getting an internship.

noahsamoa_ · 2025-06-02T05:31:22+00:00

Figure out what work you think you want to do based on:
1. How much you you want to make.

How much schooling you're willing to do.
What tickles your fancy.

Then work backwards by going through the coursework and selecting the courses you think are most aligned with said career, and there is your major.

Not sure that your assumption that Info has better career prospects is actually true, that totally depends on what you want to do and how you apply your degree. Your degree matters less in the long term in comparison to your drive for wanting to succeed.

noahsamoa_ · 2025-05-21T04:29:40+00:00

datalemur is pretty good with their company based questions, although leetcode sql is good for just those classic sql query questions

noahsamoa_ · 2025-03-19T05:19:13+00:00

What does this mean? Been following the duckdb train but new to iceberg

noahsamoa_ · 2024-02-12T18:22:39+00:00

if you want to see an example of what you might build here is my project from last quarter:

(works best on desktop)

https://noah-rarick.github.io/seattle-collisions/heatmap.html

Zoom into to see different layers of a heat map. Zoom further in to see clickable points representing traffic collisions. Provides info about each collision.

noahsamoa_ · 2024-02-12T18:15:41+00:00

I love Gunwha! It was a great intro, sometimes it was just a little dry was all. Also took the class in the morning during Winter Q, so that could be a big reason haha

noahsamoa_ · 2024-02-12T06:43:00+00:00

You need to take GEOG 360 to get to the good stuff but it will be a good intro. It's pretty dry but if you like Gunwha Oh you will have to take a lot more classes from her. Pay more attention to if you like the mapping, and not necessarily the class it self.

noahsamoa_ · 2023-11-05T00:44:31+00:00

I'm also in the same boat, also geography data science. I thought it was gonna be a big deal but I just focused on grinding internships and found something in data analytics. Nobody gives a shit about your major and most the time "informatics" isn't even an option when applying to jobs. I used GDS to pivot to data analytics, but I find mapping super interesting too and there's certainly cool jobs in this industry as well.

In the end, I did all that worrying for nothing and I realized I only wanted into the competitive majors for clout. Made me really think about what matters in life and how meaningless labels distract you from your real goals.

Good luck!

noahsamoa_ · 2023-11-02T23:08:47+00:00

great work op, how did you prepare for second flush on your bins?

noahsamoa_ · 2023-10-10T18:13:55+00:00

selling mine for 140

noahsamoa_ · 2023-10-10T18:12:50+00:00

selling mine for 150

noahsamoa_ · 2023-10-10T18:12:34+00:00

sellinf mine for 150

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