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		claytonjy on Oct 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The evolution of the data engineer role This strikes me as incredibly rosy; I want to live in this world, but I don't. The world I live in: - Data Analyst: someone who knows some SQL but not enough programming, so we can pay < 6 figures - ML specialist: someone who figured out DS is a race to the bottom and ML in a title gets you paid more. Spends most of their time installing pytorch in various places - BI Engineer: Data Analyst but paid a bit more - Data Engineer: Airflow babysitter - Big Data Engineer: middle-adged Scala user, Hadoop babysitter

tdj on Oct 24, 2022 [–]

In my experience, I have started to believe ML Engineer is short for "YAML Engineer".

z3c0 on Oct 24, 2022 | [–]

Out of all the snark in this thread, this is the only bit to illicit a chuckle from me. Thank you.

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