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Yeah but you don't need complicated stuff just being able to look at the data, understand the schema, union, left join, inner join, nesting, limit, group by, etc nothing wild.
Bogus, when you hire a school bus driver you don't ask him if he can run.
Only to know of SQL and what you can do with it, Like a car, you need to know what it can do not how it does it.
I’ve learned SQL several times and used it, but with my company’s data science resources I rarely end up thinking it a good use of my time to get set up and run queries. I enjoy it though. Useful if you’re in a startup. A great course is general assembly’s data analytics.
Yes and every day. PMs who can’t use it are at a big disadvantage.
I work closely with our team's POs (current and past). Our team's work is very database centric and there is a ton of sql code related to legacy work. Our PO does not have to know how to write SQL, but they have to be able to read through existing code to understand our business partners requirements when they want changes to existing automations. It's not a bad skill to have.
I use SQL almost every day in my current role, and it has positioned me to be an expert on a team with people who have been with the organization for longer but don’t know how to use SQL to look at the actual usage data.
I don’t think the job requirement listed SQL as a necessary skill, but I asked about having access to data in my interview and the hiring manager said they have access to data and probably don’t use it as much as they should. I made a very instant impact when I joined the team by posting weekly updates showing trends in the data within a few weeks of joining, and have continued to make significantly more impact than others on the team by using data to prove out the “intuition” that my team or others are having. In many cases, business team members had been telling leadership that usage of specific features was significantly higher than it actually was, or that EVERYONE used specific features together. I was able to prove that their intuition was blatantly wrong, and only x% (single digit) used those features in the way they thought, which changed the priority of the features we needed to iterate on.
I couldn’t imagine many circumstances where I’d be a successful PM without knowing SQL (although some of the AI “talk to your data” tools are staring to make that less important.)
Thank you all for your input, thanks to your comments I decided to take a 9 month data analytics program. I know it’s long, but the city offered a fully paid scholarship for it so it was too good of a deal to let go!