I’m trying to decide between going for software engineering or data science. I know this is a broad question, but I was curious to hear people’s experiences and thoughts around exiting consulting to either of these fields in terms of WLB, TC, etc. thanks!

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Software engineering. Data science is just a complicated word for building data interpreting Lagos. S/w engineers do all that and much more! But like any tech field it is very very competitive

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Earning potential of software engineers (can go up to $400k/year) far exceeds that of data science ($250k/year), at least in industry. Note that this is a ballpark and salaries will vary depending on city. If I could do it over again I’d be a software engineer since they’re always in high demand

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Not always - at many tech companies, data science and SWE are on the same comp band.

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