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Great break down.

Very related to my recent article: https://www.junaideffendi.com/p/transition-software-engineer-to-data

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I immediately thought about this one.

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I would peg myself as 80% group 1 and 20% group 2. The 3's make awesome tools for the rest of us, but I believe they have their own thought process that us mere mortals find hard to understand.

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Awesome breakdown. As someone who is early in their career. I am gradually moving from group 1 to group 2 due to the company I work at and I am enjoying the learning process. It is stressful but it is enjoyable .

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Type 1 seesawing to type 2 because I am doing a lot more spark

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Group 1 - analyst with one foot in engineering

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I moved from type 1 to 2 quickly by job hopping for new challenges often and spending time on personal projects.

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There is a pretty common subtype of type2. The know decent Python and Spark but not much else, as they write mostly data pipelines, ETL, in a managed solution

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