Do you need a technical degree to be a data analytical consultant? Or a data analyst in general? Or will you be hopelessly behind compared to peers who majored in data science?

What are your thoughts on getting professional certificates like those with University of Florida? Ex, Professional Certificate in Public Health. A good supplement or waste of time?

What did the first 10 years of your career look like? How many jumps did you make? Where did you work? Audit or tax? PA, government, industry? Pay increases? City-size/CoL? Would love to get enough responses to see any trends related to how long you stayed at your first firm.

Hi Fishes,
I belong to construction industry with PGDM from NICMAR in Advance Construction Management having expirence of 2yrs. I want to know how can I boom my career even after so much of higher education and expirence industry has slow career growth and toxic work culture. Iam not getting how to move further with such underpaid industry even sometime I get the thoughts for switching the career with data science which again needs time and money investment please suggest DS scope for Civil eng

Guys ,
I have offer from Volkswagen It services .How's this company for wlb, growth and hike perspective.

Graduating senior. Have choices between MBB and SWE at FAANG. Not sure what to do. Long term I’d love to be in a small startup or a leader in a tech company. Not sure which path is better for that. Any thoughts?

How do I stay relevant in the Salesforce ecosystem?
I am 24 year old Salesforce Developer with 1.5 Years of Experience. Coming back to Salesforce, I have worked on Salesforce Implementation of Small to Mid Level Businesses which required me to have an all-around knowledge of Salesforce(Admin + Development) on both Sales and Service Cloud. But I wish to specialize in one Salesforce Skill/Path and become an absolute master of it (CPQ, Vlocity, Pardot or tablu,Mulesoft). What path should I choose?

I am in a tech IC position. One of friends switched to FAANG by converting the profile to consultant profile. The friend who might have less tech knowledge than me is now in FAANG and earning more. If the end goal would be that the friend might one day be a product manager and me an engineering manager taking instructions from the same friend, isn't consultant profile an easier path to growth. I had been practising DSA for years and the competition is only ever growing.

Can someone explain to me what law clerks are in private practice? I'm based internationally but deal with our NY office a lot, and I can not figure out what the title actually means/where it sits.

Any art directors/sr designers who have successfully pivoted out of a creative role and into something else? Ive been working in visual design for 10 years and I am BORED but have no idea what i could be doing instead. The politics and subjectivity of doing corporate creative work has left me feeling drained. I never want to have another conversation about making something 10 pixels bigger. Tell me how you got out, im desperate for inspiration.

Has anyone here transitioned to a software engineer from pre-sales? Verdict?

Pros and cons on getting a designation? Been considering going for the CPCU designation to gain some professional development. Which designation did you go for and why?

For anyone who has the CIPP/US certification, how long did you study for the exam?

In terms of WLB and less stressful job, which one is better? to move in management role or stay in technical after having 11 yrs of experience.

Hi, Please can some share approx London salary bandings in Tax Consulting for SM, D and what was considered AP grades at EY. Failed to find clear info on Glassdoor.

Hi fishes,
I am currently working as an UAT tester (both manual & automation) with overall experience of approx 3years. I want to switch to a business analyst role.
Is it possible to get a job for a business analyst position without MBA?
I am willing to learn the necessary skills required too but cannot afford MBA

Please suggest..

Hi Fishes, Which company from below should I join considering better growth, WLB and job security?

1) UBS
2) Synechron
3) Wipro

All offering almost similar salary.
YOE - 4 yrs
Domain - Banking and Finance

Hiring alert! Two open roles within Weber Shandwick’s Global Intelligence in NYC but open for non-NYC candidates as well - 1) Sr. Analyst and 2) Team lead (seasoned VP or SVP). If you want to learn more, happy to share more Info!

I’ve got a friend in Dubai who has experience in IB and VC at junior levels (in London and Dubai) and would like to break into consulting. He’s at a small cap VC at the moment and works not that challenging, and he wants to break into MBB or tier 2 for strategy. Anyone happy to look at his CV?

Salesforce Commerce Cloud - what are your thoughts and is it worth it to specialize in the platform?

One of my friend who recently joined pwc missed his timesheet and his salary wasn't credited .Is this a common thing in pwc?

What do you do to be aware what peers and others outside your circle are up to?

Any SF Bay Area marketing manager opportunities? Been on the hunt for several months and can’t seem to make any traction.

My company can’t keep a single person of any sort of diverse background. Whole office looking like a scene from Mad Men. How can I keep my head straight til I get a new gig?

What is personal independence??
Why Pwc asked me to fill all investment details for me and my dependant.
Can anyone please help me on this ??

@pwc

CAIA or CMT?

I do institutional sales for an asset manager. Am graduating in the fall with an MBA from a top 40 school. Would like a designation but dont want to do the CFA.  Between the CAIA and CMT: which one is more applicable to asset management, and better status/recognition? appreciate any insight

Going to the Atlanta Braves game tomorrow. I see there's a ton of shopping centers right next to the park, can I just park there and walk over to the stadium? Wondering what the natives do

Amazonians - curious to know what internal ops L5 and L6 make? Thanks in advanced!

Hi! Excited we have a space finally :)

Anyone have an idea what the Guidehouse salary range for senior consultant is? Glassdoor average is between 90-114k. Does that sound right or is that low?

Has anyone had an issue with index match and lookups returning NA when trying to manipulate data from a password protected workbook?

Recommendations on bathing suits for guys? I like the Vilebrequin / Mr. Swim style, but don't want to spend more than $50

I’m bad at drawing. Any courses or books ADs or designers recommend to get better.

Hey guys, is there anyone (female) living in Marahathalli or Whitefield and needs a flatmate(female)? Please reply. Will need to shift in the mid of December.

Super bummed about the hiking trail and beach closures. What are some good outdoor areas I can go to? Walks around my block are getting boring.

If you had to choose between the army and the navy, which one would you choose and why?

What’s so good about the Georgia Tech OMSC and OMSA? Is it just the cost? Seems to be recommended by most of reddit

Learning cloud architecture right now so apologies if these are obvious questions: Best ways to store video metadata to perform analysis on it? I'm looking at AWS and GCP. Saw that Cassandra would be good for it, but not sure what the GCP equivalent is? But also I'm a bit confused on if Cassandra is just a DB and storage would need to be elsewhere? All help is welcome! I've been spinning my wheels on Google trying to understand

Is there a good online course on storytelling with data? Something that can help structure your thought process and design choices when creating visualizations and Dashboards in Tableau, Power BI etc.

Anyone who has done masters in business analytics Singapore? Could you help on courses, Scholarships and careers and jobs. Looking for help.

How does everyone in this bowl feel towards master’s degrees in data science/analytics? I didn’t study this in undergrad so I’m looking to get an analytics degree but I’ve heard mixed reviews.

I was hired a few months ago by D to do data science. I am not doing data science currently, is there a way I can switch roles internally? Should I talk to my coach? Or should I just start looking for a new job. I’m starting to feel that the field is so hot rn my small stint at D won’t be a big deal to other firms.

Any recommended courses or books on customer care/cust success analytics or marketing analytics in general?

Is anyone working with Elastic at DoD?

I am currently working mostly in Data Analytics, but I want to transition into Data Engineering. I've applied to a couple Data engineer positions but it seems I don't have the qualifications for them. Should I maybe look for Jr. Data Engineer positions to get experience and try to move up from there? If so anybody know of any Jr. Data Engineer positions available?

What are some interesting non-tech/insurance/advertising/consulting careers where data science is applied? Thinking of epidemiology and economics

Do any of the top consulting firms have analytics roles (preferably not super technical) that don’t require weekly travel?

Quick survey: Do you guys think having a template package to envelope an ML model as an application would be helpful. The package could contain boiler plate template for unit test, docker image, CI/CD, database connectors etc and act as a starting point for doing that. Tech firms usually have that internally but limited options in open source.

What’s the best/simplest way to understand Sets vs Groups in tableau?

from God import pandemic
From China import coronavirus, mortality_rate

covid_19 = pandemic.coronavirus.set_mortality(mortality = 1.)

Partner: Let’s take the data in the spreadsheet and put it in PowerBI so we can cut it up.

Me: What? It’s already cut up in the spreadsheet. I don’t get it.

Also me: Yeah! Analytics!

This might be a long shot ... but I have a Statistics assignment due for tonight in a few hours

Does anyone know how to do Linear Discriminant Analysis with more than one predictor - by hand? I know how to compute in R but my professor wants it done by hand .... fml

Anyone here work or has interviewed for a data science role at DataRobot? Would love to get some insight. Third interview coming up.