Career advice

Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement. Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

I've been an Oracle Database Administrator handling databases and exadata, data guard, performance tuning (not so great at it), little bit of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as well and typical DBA tasks including tablespace reorganization, migrations, etc. for the last 3 years. Now I'm thinking about transitioning into a Data Engineer/Data Analyst roles as it seems it is having a more lucrative future ahead. I'm good at doing DBA things but I'm doubtful about this considering the future scope of this as there isn't much a DBA has to do in databases as most of the work is handled by Database itself but I have an interest in it and getting calls from other companies as well for the same role. Is DBA a really good career option considering the future and the compensation? Or exploring or gaining skills in data engineering/analyst has more benefit? Also, what would be the best among Data Engineer/Data Analyst/AI,ML Engineer?

As a SWE having 5yoe in Java I find myself absolutely bored and done with this profile currently preparing to switch to Data Analytics domain and try to build my tech stack from there. I wanna ask how many of you successfully transitioned and what tips would you offer. Also query to managers who are interviewing such roles what are your expectations and suggestions. Any advice to help me is welcome

Hi, wanted to know if there is some kind of threshold in data analytics, if yes then should I move to data science field or data engineering and how?or any other suggestions.

My manager interviewed me developer role and after final interview mentioned support role. I had a discussion for role change with manager but forcing to work here for 1year and they will release me. I couldn't cope up with this environment and hating to go to work everyday. Decided to resign. Can I get any referrals. I have overall 3 years experience in IT industry in which 2 years as a Data engineer. I am interested in Data engineer or Data analyst role. Need help here..

Data Analyst with 2 years of experience later joined as machine learning researcher for a company abroad(only 3 months). Had to relocate back to India and confused about career. Should I stick on to machine learning or data analytics? Found that machine learning / AI opportunities are less than data analytics in India.

Currently I have 1.5 yoe as a data scientist with CTC of 6 lpa. Thinking of transitioning to Data Analyst or SDE but can't figure out. I have graduated in Mechanical Engineering, so I don't have the pedigree to become a good SDE. What you all think?

I have been applying for data analyst and junior data scientists role for the last 3 months but not getting enough response. I apply for more than 20+ jobs on daily basis lekin tab bhi kuch nhi ho rha hai. I have built 2 project on ML, 1 on NLP and 3-4 good project on data analytics. I graduated in May 2023 then I decided to learn Data science ( uske pehle bhi college me 3-4 mahine thoda padha tha) now I have so many doubts regarding my career and rejection - Just because I'm fresher that's why they are not choosing me ?? - I'm from non-tech ( Bsc) .. isiliye - or current job market hi accha nhi hai Ab to kabhi kabhi apne decision pr regret bhi hota hai. To solve the experience issue I have decided to do a decent marketing job (only for 6-7months) so that I can show it in my CV aur kuch savings bhi kr lu. Please guide me if you guys have any advice for me. Thanks.

I have 3 years of experience in the oracle domain,now I am thinking of shifting to the data analytics domain is it a good option in the current situation,please guide me the correct path to start my career in the data analytics domain.

Hi , I want to switch to data analyst role.currently I am working in infosys as a ETL Tester in cloud technologies like Azure synapse, snowflake,dbt,SQL,PYSPARK etc. Anyone can please suggest how can I switch to business analyst