Are you saying that true Data Engineers typically do more than just use Tableau or run OLAP queries, or do you see the title 'Data Engineer' itself as a bit of a red flag these days? I’m pretty early in my career and was leaning toward Data Engineering, but hearing stuff like this makes me wonder if going for SWE might be smarter.
Yep, that's where I am at - the amount of times people have talked to me about the most recent podcast where they've heard how a new tool will solve all their problems and really its some samey mix of CDC and bad python+sql is... a lot.
I think there's not a ton of political palatability for realizing most of their projects are like one API and a sane use of some SQL away.
For starters, Engineer only makes sense if the person actually holds an engineering degree, taken at an institution validated by the Engineering Order.
That's a legalism that isn't universal. Personally, I think that anyone who engages in engineering is logically an engineer. Maybe not a certified engineer, but an engineer nonetheless.
"The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property"[1]
It's important to note that Hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race. These two get conflated often. To be considered hispanic you just need Spanish roots, I think it's nonsense that people from Spain are not considered "White" but generally all other countries in Europe are. My point being that it's strange that other colonizing peoples descendants (Britain & France) are not tracked the same way descendants of Spanish people are.
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