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For every 'real' data science job which requires deep knowledge of statistics and machine learning, there are 50 DBA positions where they want you to know some python.

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I was hired as a "technical game data scientist" and all I do is fix stuff with python, celery, redis, and if I'm lucky Redshift. To be fair, they know this isn't really "data science" but it's always what needs to happen in the next sprint so anything interesting is shoved out.

I think a lot of companies are hiring "data engineers" but don't know it. The guy who started making Superset (https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset) wrote this and I think it's apt.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-rise-of-the-data-enginee...

And for every company which wants to have a DBA there are thousands which just don't care, or claim having a DBA is just too expensive as the programmers are enough. The results are quite terrible then... but almost nobody cares. Just my small remark after long time of looking for a job as a postgres DBA :).

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