u/ToothPickLegs

Small background: Been doing data analytics and BI development with heavy sql and ETL work within fabric for a little over 4 years.

My company recently told me they will give me the data engineering title but it pays the same as their BI salaries.

Other companies i have talked with have been skittish about going into the 110k area with this experience.

I make 93k now… is this normal for 4 yoe doing DE style work but without the official title? Is asking for a 20k increase anywhere considerably greedy?

Area I talked to is slightly MCOL and I’m making 93k in what is considered LCOL.

I am confused as to what the standard salary is nowadays because I always thought DE was a career that paid more.

I have been learning golf more seriously this year and while at the range I’ve slowly improved, with few bad shots but mostly acceptable, in my experience I can be absolutely awful on the course.. as in I forget how to hit the ball/it looks like I’ve never went to a range in my life and the ball dribbles in front of me a bit or in front of the tee box. The humiliation sucked but it didn’t matter because I always had another person with me that could hit the ball and we could play it usually when that happened.

Well I’ve been to the range 6 times now and had lessons. I really need to get on the course and use the course to improve but I will be alone this time. The courses around me are all nice and often busy. I’m worried on what to do if someone is behind me and I hit the ball horribly/it looks like I just discovered golf yesterday once I’m on the tee and they are right behind me. The humiliation will suck but I don’t want to be a nuisance on top of it

What’s the proper etiquette here? Just drop the ball ahead somewhere? Skip the hole? Letting them play through I feel might be tough if there’s more behind them.

Edit: I forgot to emphasize I will be a solo golfer here

Hey all

I’ve been a BI Developer for 4 years, under 2 different companies (first one had several layoffs, current one is notoriously stable). My goal has always been to get into data engineering or even analytics engineering with a technical aspect to it. It’s been a struggle and really discouraging

The issue is…when I applied within the company they straight up said they usually hire DE’s with actual DE experience and don’t often hire many. Really soured me from I was initially told on how I should be able to move into DE internally when I got hired.

My background on the job is mainly Fabric(company even paid for my DP700), pipelines notebooks etc, and then I built a personal project primarily using DBT, and snowflake to try to branch out. I of course have a lot of sql experience and python but I have yet to actually work for a development team…all my traditional git/SDLC experience comes from personal projects or my CS degree.

I’ve been applying to no luck. A lot of jobs want true engineering experience and I really can’t find a lot of jobs referencing Fabric around me. More so it feels like they want job experience using other tools like Databricks, AWS, etc. Even then those jobs still lean towards needing experience.

It’s been taking a toll on me honestly. Doing the first project was interesting but coming home to work on it after full working days and spending weekends doing it was tough knowing that it’s going to MAYBE get me something. Do I do another project in AWS? Databricks? Will that even matter since it’s limited to just being personal? The other thing is I make 90 as an analyst…so I am also coming to terms with a company may end up wanting to give me a paycut starting out. Which at this point I’d just like to talk to a company about what they actually need from me before salary comes into the picture.

Just wondering if this community can offer any advice or a direction to go. I don’t hate BI but it sucks feeling like I can’t go anywhere from it