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DancingLlama
DancingLlama
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Swe Backend vs Data engineering (serious)

Please answer??? In terms of pay, future scope etc

7mo ago
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FluffyKoala
FluffyKoala
Stealth7mo

Backend always
In data you will deal with people who just familiar with sql or people who didn’t get engineering job. Also your works belong to products managers. You don’t have any visibility. You don’t own any important business part. If data pipeline stops no one cares . So move to backend asap

DancingLlama
DancingLlama
Stealth7mo

Which stack would be good for backend?? Python Django or Java Springboot?? Mern is too crowded

FluffyKoala
FluffyKoala
Stealth7mo

Stack don’t matter in engineering you just need good problem solving skills . Stack can come and go .

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