u/Infamous_Bit_4132

I graduated with a CS degree back in May (3 months ago), have zero student debt, and landed a Data Engineer role making $70k/year. The job is a 20-minute commute from my parents' place, stable, and honestly the exact setup I want right now since I’m trying to stay close to home for a bit.

Here’s the issue: I am beyond lost.

Throughout college, I had great grades and did three SWE internships at Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, all focused on standard backend development. Because of that, I thought I had a solid foundation. But Data Engineering feels like an entirely different universe.

Every single meeting sounds like an alien language. My team is small and everyone else has 2 to 4+ years of dedicated DE experience. I’m the only fresh grad, and I don't even know what I don't know. When they talk about pipeline architectures, orchestration, data modeling, and specific tooling, I don't even know what to search on Google after the call to catch up.

When they hired me, management explicitly said they didn't expect me to know DE tooling out of the gate and that I’d learn on the job. But sitting here lost in every meeting, bringing basically zero value while everyone else moves fast, is giving me insane anxiety. I don't want to get fired, and I actually want to keep this job.

Any advice on navigating these first few months without burning out or losing my job would mean a lot. I'm considering doing a masters in data science/engineering but I feel like that wouldn't change much... school didn't prepare me for anything in the corporate engineering environments I've been in.

I graduated with a CS degree back in May (3 months ago), have zero student debt, and landed a Data Engineer role making $70k/year. The job is a 20-minute commute from my parents' place, stable, and honestly the exact setup I want right now since I’m trying to stay close to home for a bit.

Here’s the issue: I am beyond lost.

Throughout college, I had great grades and did three SWE internships at Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, all focused on standard backend development. Because of that, I thought I had a solid foundation. But Data Engineering feels like an entirely different universe.

Every single meeting sounds like an alien language. My team is small and everyone else has 2 to 4+ years of dedicated DE experience. I’m the only fresh grad, and I don't even know what I don't know. When they talk about pipeline architectures, orchestration, data modeling, and specific tooling, I don't even know what to search on Google after the call to catch up.

When they hired me, management explicitly said they didn't expect me to know DE tooling out of the gate and that I’d learn on the job. But sitting here lost in every meeting, bringing basically zero value while everyone else moves fast, is giving me insane anxiety. I don't want to get fired, and I actually want to keep this job.

Any advice on navigating these first few months without burning out or losing my job would mean a lot. I'm considering doing a masters in data science/engineering but I feel like that wouldn't change much... school didn't prepare me for anything in the corporate engineering environments I've been in.

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I've seen a lot of people saying this episode flew by, and it's probably because this episode only adapted a single chapter from the main storyline instead of the usual 2–3 chapters. That said, I think the director made the right call by moving the ending scene here. It makes the story flow much more naturally than the original light novel, where Eris becoming a Sword King was revealed at the end of Volume 14. Having that reveal now feels much more connected to what's currently happening instead of being a random cutaway much later.

As for Episode 7, I think it'll begin with the one-year timeskip and adapt the graduation day chapter, with the graduation shown during the opening like they did with Cliff's wedding. From there, it'll probably move into the Doldia sisters' fight, followed by the successful watermelon teleport experiment and the completion of Phase 4 of the teleportation research. That should still leave enough time to cover everyone's preparations for the expedition, the group gathering at the meeting point, and end with their teleportation to the Floating Fortress BUTTTT that might be pushing it. They may have to shorten a few scenes or save the meeting point and teleportation for Episode 8.

I'm rereading the light novel from where the anime currently is, and I realized something.

If Rudy had told Sylvaril and Perugius that he knew the Man-God, Perugius probably never would have accepted him in the first place. That got me wondering how much the story would have changed from that point onward.

Would Ariel still have won the Asuran succession? Would Rudy have ever formed an alliance with Orsted? How different would the rest of the story have been if Perugius had turned him away from the beginning?

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Im rereading volume 13 of the light novel and I noticed that the anime adaption completely skipped this chapter and epsisode 4 only adapted "can i keep him" "a water king was born" and "paternal dignity". Any reasons for why it was skipped or are they doing the adaptations out of order. If they really are just going to skip a whole chapter I'd assume it's to rush to turning point 4 which has more action but what are your thoughts