Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
by Chris2048 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:15PM
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Ah, but there's a lot of politics and personal-influence-opportunity in management, that's the barrier.
> But you know who will reliably earn more than the data scientist in three years? The data scientist's boss.
I'm not 100% sure of this. There will be a boss in the chain that earns more, but actually I suspect that this isn't always true, given one assumption - the boss, as a job requirement, has to have a good knowledge of DS (maybe an ex/senior DS?), in which case this barrier ensures management will get higher pay - otherwise they'd just stay/go into in DS.
> But you know who will reliably earn more than the data scientist in three years? The data scientist's boss.
I'm not 100% sure of this. There will be a boss in the chain that earns more, but actually I suspect that this isn't always true, given one assumption - the boss, as a job requirement, has to have a good knowledge of DS (maybe an ex/senior DS?), in which case this barrier ensures management will get higher pay - otherwise they'd just stay/go into in DS.