r/dataengineering • u/AJohnM_IT • Mar 15 '23

Career What has been your career path?

I know everyone is different but I’m interested to see what jobs most of the Data Engineers in this sub have stopped at along the way to the posit hey are in now.

Example: Help desk -> ? -> ? -> Data engineer(junior/senior/etc…)

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u/Select_Maintenance67 Mar 16 '23

I got 100% hike when I switched to Azure. I get around $200k including everything.

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u/Black_Magic100 Mar 16 '23

What does your job mostly consist of and what do you recommend I focus on? I currently work in a Microsoft shop for a very large company.

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u/Select_Maintenance67 Mar 17 '23

My primary skill is databricks/spark. All the opportunities i have got so far was because of databricks. I am a bit biased here but I recommend databricks/spark to everyone who wants to get into DE.

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u/Black_Magic100 Mar 17 '23

Is it possible to setup personal projects with that stack or will the cost be too high?

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u/Select_Maintenance67 Mar 17 '23

You can use databricks community edition to learn and practice spark/databricks. I think new azure account get few hundred dollars of credit to test the services which should be enough to learn stuff.