ilovedata1

I've been with Google for just over 2 years now, and I've seen that Google seems to consider Data Engineers equally skilled as software engineers. Algorithms and data structures, systems design, memory management, designing distributed systems, etc. Other companies like Meta/Amazon seem to believe that data engineering involves using no-code/low-code tools to build data pipelines. Do you think Data Engineering is going to align closer to software engineering, or closer to specialized BIEs? Will Analytics Engineer become more popular? My experience at Google is such that it's actually more difficult to find roles at other companies, and I thought Google would be a great resume builder.

Author of the article here, if anyone has any questions (or just continue roasting away; that’s good too)

I wrote the article because many companies treat SQL like excel files. It gets emailed around, unknowingly forked and modified, saved on desktops or shared file storage, and nobody knows how to fix anything.

For everyone who said “SQL is code is this news” - I agree with you. It is code. And it shouldn’t be news. And I hope all companies implement version control with SQL. I see Java version controlled at a significantly higher rate than SQL. That’s all. Good day.