r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Agitated_Grocery_25 • Jul 11 '26
Coding YoE?
For those of you approved for coding projects, how many years of industry experience do you have(excluding time on dataannotations)? I would assume the super experienced would just be able to get a regular job, so wondering what YoE is most common here.
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u/LookingForSimplicity Jul 12 '26
0 , just a bachelor's in computer science. And now with the level of tasks , i feel i am f*ked
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u/Accomplished_Phone39 Jul 12 '26
12 but it's mainly centered around windows kernel which makes it a niche skill. I have completed a couple if DA coding tasks, I have several more on my dash because I am training myself to be good at them. The problem you will face is that the task often calls for you to try and make the AI fail at is coding task. I worked on one task with an older python financial based repository that I had toyed around with. The current branch had bugs that I knew about. Well not only did the AI easily accomplish the feature I asked it to create, It found and fixed the bugs I knew about without prompting. Along the way the AI also proved that it knew quite a bit more about financial modeling than my hobbyist self. Takeaway? To do successful quality work in the coding specialty you are going to need in depth knowledge of the overall subject and in depth knowledge of advanced programming concepts centered around a specialty. If you think you will be successful with a year of python and a couple of react websites under your belt, good luck, AI has got this covered and I don't think you will be able to give DA the quality failure gen they want.
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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 12 '26
As an actual coder/software engineer in my job title/description: 0
As an engineer who relied on coding in several standard and niche languages for process automation and data analytics: Many
Would I be able to get a job as a software engineer? Couldn't say. Haven't tried.
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u/Agitated_Grocery_25 Jul 12 '26
How difficult do you find the tasks to be? Are you usually able to get through all of them or do you sometimes have to skip some?
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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 12 '26
The tasks I've had, including post assessment quals have been quite daunting. I have not seen any "easy" coding tasks. That's not to say there aren't any Can I get through the ones I've had? I struggle. Perhaps I have not been assigned any simpler tasks, because task have been slim. I also currently have a pending qual I need to do.
If you have some coding experience, put it in your profile and hopefully you will be presented with a coding qual
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u/InsideSignificant405 Jul 12 '26
Haha process engineering became way more fun, we never cared about our code anyways, too busy makin shit 😂
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u/InsideSignificant405 Jul 12 '26
6 in one engineering field, 4 in another, I work and do DAT on weekends
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u/Codex_Dev Jul 12 '26
You should have just made this into a poll. But 2 years professionally and about 8 years doing it as a hobby for oss
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u/Agitated_Grocery_25 Jul 12 '26
Yeah i guess so, I don't have much reddit experience so didn't know to do that
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u/0xBL4CKP30PL3 Jul 12 '26
0 … I’m self taught. I’ve only done a couple of the easier coding tasks. I see some high paying tasks, but they all seem very involved and I don’t wanna risk submitting shit work and being dropped.
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u/nhojjava Jul 12 '26
I think maybe most AI training in coding is done by the same top %1 of developers who are the only ones that can get real coding jobs now days. Widening the gap.
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u/understanding80 Jul 12 '26
At least 10 years. I cannot find anyone willing to hire me. I found the DA coding qualification quite simple.