Re:Alternative Career Paths That Software Developers Can Gro...
by chetan_v on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:21PM
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Yeah it seemed kind of strange to me that Data Science and R&D are both not considered highly independent, I guess on some teams there is a more collaborative atmosphere but most of the data science work I have done seemed pretty independent. The people skills I agree with also, can't see how any data scientist could get by without strong people skills to communicate their results with leaders and to collaborate with subject matter experts.
Re:Alternative Career Paths That Software Developers Can Gro...
by karlhughes on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:46AM
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That's a fair critique, although I didn't mean to imply that any of these roles take 0 people skills - only that some involve more time creating things solo vs. interacting with a team.
I also think there's a lot of variation in these roles, so my experience with them is probably just limited.
Re:Alternative Career Paths That Software Developers Can Gro...
by mratsim on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:31AM
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Similarly Teacher and Trainer should have the most people skills requirement and be all the way to the right.
Security Analyst and Business Analyst have a high people skills requirement as well, you spend your time hovering and translating 2 domains:
- Security or Business
- Developers
And often sales, marketing, legal as well.
The welcome splash graphic shows data science having one of the lowest people skill requirements? What?
Yeah I get it's still a hazily defined field, but literally every attempted definition I've seen includes greater business/domain knowledge than the average programmer, which usually implies working and communicating with different business stakeholders. And DS requires a lot of communication for getting buy in for the new models.
They also should be fairly independent since they have to do a lot of exploring of the data and coming up with ways to get useful, actionable insight out of it, often creating a predictive model.
It's going to be hard to take the rest of the article seriously with things like that in the splash graphic.