Help! In a Dilemma | SDE vs DA
So I am a final year B.Tech student at a good college, CSE branch. Today, I got placed at a Fintech company as a Data Analyst, and the pay is also good (~25LPA).
The thing is, I never prepared for this role. I grinded DSA/LeetCode throughout my college life and was also good at it. I wanted to be a backend engineer and made good projects. I feel I just got this job because of my sql or aptitude skills.
Now I am worried if I made a wrong decision just because of the good pay.
I wanted to know, how is growth in this field? For SDEs at a higher level, like SDE 3 and so on, they earn pretty insanely. Do data analysts ever come close to that pay?
What's the hierarchy of positions in this field, and can I ever be a tech guy again? How possible is a switch from Analyst -> SDE?
Or if not this, how about DA -> Data Engineer -> Data Scientist?
I am not sure whether I would ever like this non tech kinda role full of meetings/presentations