[datavirtue]

They idea was that they were going to hire an army of data scientists and become google...magically.

Reality smacked that shit down hard. I left data engineering because the projects were all over the place, wildly undisciplined and unfocused.

You were lucky to have source control let alone an understanding from the business that these projects were in fact software development.

I switched back to software engineering because at least there is a faint realization that we are...building software.

I might go back when the dust clears.

"Why do we need to hire programmers...I thought we needed data engineers?"

"Because the data pipelines are all built with thousands of lines of code. Java, python, Fortran, you name it...and your job post only mentioned SQL and data modelling"

I could go on forever.