Data engineering has few junior roles because companies prefer hiring senior engineers to manage pipelines. The speaker recommends starting as a software engineer or data analyst instead, then moving into data engineering. Their own entry point was a software engineering role.
Data engineering is a weird field because, like, if you're trying to get that first job, trying to find those, like, junior roles, like, there isn't that many junior roles, generally speaking, for data engineering, just because a lot of companies, they need, they need one data engineer, and they don't want the one data engineer to be a junior data engineer. That's because, like, they want that person to handle the pipelines. So, like, that's a big thing that can happen. So, like, finding that entry foothold role can be hard. So there's a couple different ways to go. Some people go like, with an adjacent role where they like, start as like a software engineer or they start as like a data analyst. So for me, in my career, my first role was actually a software engineering role.
