[alexyz12]

As a Data Engineer, I feel like a fixer. People think their data is incorrect and they ask me to fix it. It's similar to fixing someone's computer when they think its broken.

Incredibly valuable but also somewhat unfulfilling in that you are rarely innovating/inventing like a SWE. There you are building tools that can change how people act/think. On the other hand, as a SWE/inventor you aren't desperately needed like you are as a DE. The needing can be nice...

[edmundsauto]

Also a DE - the “data as a service” model is broken. Data engineers need to be upstream producing insights because they have the best feel for the warts.

Companies that treat DE as IT (“service model”) do not have the right perspective and will not hire the kind of DE who are difference makers.

Data teams should be partners.

[Centigonal]

I work in data, but I've seen a lot of comments from SWEs who are tired of building the same CRUD web app over and over again. The grass is always greener?

[thegabriele]

I work as DE in a local medium business and since there's no giant all-in-one ERP my role is essentialy build solutions to improve (or create) analytics to act upon. It's working and even if i'm not at spaceX, i feel like i'm inventing something. But, since the size of it all..i also fix things (software and hardware).

Now, the problem is to convince other business that they might need my services.