Data analyst v/s data engineer
Which is a better field, data analyst or data engineer in terms of growth and salary.
Is data engineer a good carrier to opt for considering the salary, growth and future prospects?
Yes, switched from BE to DE role 2 years ago. Growth is good but it also depends on org you choose, now a days orgs hire DE just for sake and work is very minimal. Try to find org where the analytics team is strong and they need your help there and also data flow is good
In terms of future prospects, data as whole will be there for long time and unless Analysts start getting their own data (ETL jobs), DE position is required
Which is a better field, data analyst or data engineer in terms of growth and salary.
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, ...
What will be the future of a data engineer after these much recession/layoffs or arrival of AI