Every group is bloated, and it’s ridiculously easy to coast by working just 20 hours a week. Data engineering has to be the biggest cheat code of them all. You basically just work with existing tools while pulling in close to top-level pay.
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@11q everything is about numbers, how many deployments, how many this, how many that. How fast what’s your velocity???
Quality is an afterthought
@bd this is 100% correct. Manager must be Dale or Amit
@n1 correct on toxic leaders. DDAT is he-l. My mental health has gotten so much worse with our new director. He’s trying so hard to make a mark and wasting peoples time while doing so. Senseless meetings, requests that make no sense. It’s so bad. the new AVP again no background in management. Wants spreadsheets of useless information. Hire American
Management is sh-t in DDAT.
Here's the deal, up your skills.
Other companies mantras are AI integration, that where IT funding gets allocated. Full rebuilds are done on the cloud using modern relational db's and more python than a reptile exhibit. All agile if not Scrum, then some version of it.
If you're still working in 2016 code, you have signed your exit papers.
It's a shame people's egos and personal agendas ki-l talent.
DDAT is the worst. Zero planning, constant issues both prod and lower, nightly releases, toxic "leaders"....
@ed True. Spinless with no vision or direction, no care for their reports. Just promising their leaders whatever they want on whatever timeline they want. They are not leaders or managers. They are messengers.
@bd Don't forget the weak management.....
DDAT is horrid.
@ay bonus doing the needful sir +100 lakh izzat for whole village
This is not my experience. Our DDAT world is skeleton crews (product and design and development) with piles of work, ever-shifting priorities & unrealistic date-driven deadlines from higher-ups. 20 hours a week does not even cover 2/3 of the meetings, let alone doing the work then redoing it when some a--hat changes their mind or increases scope for no reason.
What part of the business do you work in and are there openings?
Engineers highest pay, dec bonus and 10% increment