Are you still in Russia ?
Right now, yes. I have a job here, and I would get fired if start working from other country, so it's important to find a job first and then move
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boa00 commented on Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed · Posted by u/boa00
Do not transition to SWE thinking it will be more "interesting" or "fun". Although it appears to the outside that SWE is more interesting/fun, that's only true at junior levels, when no one expects anything out of you. If you want to progress in your career, you will have to transition to a senior engineer (needs to get things done with the least creativity possible) or management (spends all day in meetings). Every career path leads to this, even data science.
I agree with you. The feeling that grass is greener might play a role here, as I've already seen the 'ugly' side of DS, but not of SWE
But I thought I could easily come back to ML if I want to after SWE jobs given my prev experience. From inside the industry, I see that companies really want Data Scientists who know how to code properly
boa00 commented on Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed · Posted by u/boa00
Data science is an oversold profession. When studying it, you learn really cool things; Bayesian models, reinforcement learning, AI, all the trendy stuff. In reality, most of the data scientists end up spending almost all of their time interacting with horribly designed, decade(s) old databases and the analysis part of their job is mostly just plotting the mean as a function of time and doing logistic regression over and over again.
I can relate to this. The process of studying ML algorithms, how and why they work from the mathematical standpoint was really fun. But the process of building models themselves seems quite boring to me