For those with friends or SOs in DS or SWE, how much comp do they make? Thinking of making a switch to DS or SWE.
I’m 30 and still feel young enough to make career switch. Currently make $250k as business intelligence director in F500. Opportunity cost is high, but I think there are ways to make the transition a positive ROI of time and effort.

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Stay where you are imo. You can make 600k+ in SWE but it's way harder and you're making far above AVERAGE SWE pay

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I'm intrigued, do you have a background in STEM or business? Most likely the latter I presume. Doesn't sound like a seismic shift? Have you consider doing a master while working? At your level, how useful would that knowledge come to play as I'd presume you'd most likely be managing analysts and above while you guide and make decisions.. thinking out loud here given your base salary unless you want to go into big tech and be a sole contributor

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Well I can align boxes.

OP, it depends on if you can become a top tier SWE.

Here's the first 3 levels at Google for median TC as an IC.

250k, 350k, 500k

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I'm not sure what it takes to get an interview to be honest. It's very competitive.

Other than that, the interview itself will be very technical.

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How can you make $250k in BI?

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FAANG director would require 15+ YOE on the fast side.

Similar compensation in FAANG would be mid level (2 levels above entry level)

If you still want to stay in Chicago but do a slight lateral into tech consulting you may want to consider Thoughtworks. They actually had at one time the hardest technical interview in the country for SWEs. Also if you do have a desire to go the SWE route, it is going to be difficult without learning discrete math compared to the other types of math you've learned. You're much better off going the DS route if you want to lean on past maths.

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