To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/ColinLate/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. What roles are you interested in?
I was a UX designer focused a little more in UI and was doing really well and paid on the higher end. Then I got on maternity leave and was let go when I returned. I was thinking of project management, or would you recommend something else?
Also, more productive comment / question? I am breaking into tech and fully committing. I’m leaning towards the software engineer path. Would you recommend me returning to college or an alternative form of education such as a boot camp? I’m 23 years old for reference and want to get into the industry sooner than later. Thank you , great video by the way.
It depends how much self motivation, grit, and structure you can put on yourself. Even with those programs it will take hundreds of hours to learn on your own, but they help people who just need the structure. 4 years vs 4 month bootcamp is a huge difference. If you already have a college degree, I would consider a bootcamp and building in open source and your own projects. There are tons of great online resources to try first. See if you can get yourself to learn by building something in the next two weeks with those first. Can you actually stay that dedicated? You’ll get a sense for how much support you need. I can’t tell you which is best for you but there are great resources online to help you decide specific to engineering
Great to hear! There are hundreds of creators focused just on how to get into software engineering roles! I recommend following some of them to get a more detailed set of options and tips along the way.
After 2 years in Java development... I m planning to switch QA Automation because I don't want much coding... Is it a right choice or which technology can I choose
Software Engineering will always pay more than something like QA automation. I mean a lot more over your career. If you hate coding, becoming a Technical Program Manager, Data Scientist, or Product Manager are other high paying paths. If you like sales/people, solutions architect is okay too.
Am having 3.5 years of experience in manual testing and 7 years career break .. now again restarting my career in testing and searching jobs and struggling to find job .. after getting job in testing I would like to upgrade my skills or move to other technology Which one you ll suggest for me and good career growth in future .. upgrading skills in automation continue as tester or moving to DevOps engineer or moving to AI/DS/ML ? Please reply 🙏🏻
It depends what you're looking to do. QA Engineers can be full time roles and some of them go on to become DevOps engineers if they learn about scaled system design and operations or security. It's always good to just improve your general software engineering skills so that you can get any SDE/SWE job and then specialize after you have the fundamentals in something like ML, DevOps, Data Engineering, etc. Depends on your strengths and your passion.
May I add Solution/Sales Engineer as a job that is in high demand at this point in time. I know I am biased since that is all I talk about, but the market is there for those who want it
Hey, I need your advice. I'm a bachelor's in computer science and planning to go to the UK for my masters. I've three options Computer Science, Data Science and Data Analysis as a degree. I want to specialize as a Machine Learning Engineer but i can afford Data Analyst degree most easily. To be honest, master's is the only pathway for me to jump from a third world to a first world country & it's one of the main reasons I'm doing my master's. Should i go for master's in data analysis and develop my skills in machine learning instead and pursue my career in it? or it'll be a fatal mistake?
MLE is definitely the most lucrative field and your studies will be paid multiple times by your salary. Data Analyst isn’t as good as Data Science but I’m not sure what they teach in that degree. Look at DS and MLE compensation on levels.fyi vs Data Analyst. It is multiple times especially later in your career.
@@ColinLate Thanks man! Does a master's lead to higher salary? Would i be able to work as a Machine Learning Engineer even after doing Masters in Data Analysis? Actually I'm a fresh BS Computer Science graduate.
@@zainkhalid3670 depends on the role. Some AI roles require PhD, others require just bachelors and your own personal and professional experience in ML and AI. Data Analyst isn’t ML so I would not expect it to help you, but I don’t know what the program even teaches. If the same school has a DS or CS degree at the same level, I would assume analyst is pretty rudimentary and mostly for business people.
They are a non-technical role, but you are correct, they don't earn as much. In fact, just being a Data Analyst doing 60-70% the same job just on different parts of the business and less spreadsheet modeling, you can earn more. I know people who transition between them. BAs still make a good living vs. people outside tech.
Either is good. Software Engineers have more opportunities and more competition. Data Scientists use more stats and there are fewer of them and fewer roles. Software Engineers could make more on average, but they both pay very well.
If you want to be an AI researcher, you'll want a Masters/PhD on the topic. If you just want an ML Engineering job, you don't need all that. You do have to be #1 great at software engineering/computer science and then #2 learn a lot about how to not only build but deploy algorithms. It is not a short learning path and no two roles are alike in ML. Talk to current ML engineers and read articles on what to study written by current ML engineers on what they had to learn. e.g. You can work as an ML engineer at a consumer app startup by integrating existing models out there into features that actually help people day to day. Other ML engineers do more primary research and build their own models. It's a wide spectrum. You should be able to land a regular software engineer role and in addition to that have ML skills to add to it.
Are those salaries from the Sillicon Valley? According to Indeed. the national AVG salary for a Software Engineer is not 200K, it is 120K. a Data Scientist 124K. and so on..
I’m posting a brand new updated video soon with the data sources shown with percentiles for the top 23 highest paying roles so stay tuned. Also note that I’m talking about total compensation including equity which indeed does not include
I don’t know the answer to that directly but I do know that you can get certifications for that role from AWS that could be sufficient. But the best way to find out is to find others on LinkedIn with that background
Very high....security isn’t fall in category of purely project based jobs...security is more of operation type job which requires continuous improvement all the time irrespective of growth rate in infrastructure and technology stacks
This is true though the speciality here is jobs at tech companies whereas cybersecurity specialists are more prominent at the many many jobs at many other enterprises and other businesses
i want to get a certificate on coursera to move onto a coding related field (i have BS in electrical engineering) Do you think it will help me get a job in those types of roles? (since i already have a stem degree)
Coursera's certificate won't get you a job. It can give you some skills, but if you want to get a job you need to A) get an interview through demonstrating you actually can code (projects, internships, free work or contracts for startups, build your own app, etc.) and B) pass the interview by practicing like mad for the very very challenging and competitive coding interviews at tech companies (most use leetcode to practice, but there's more to it than that).
@@ColinLate but wont the certificate help since I already have a electrical engineering (Stem) degree and work in a electrical engineering job? My thing is i want to break into the software/coding field where the big money is, but i am not doing any coding in my current job
Certificates will be a relatively minor signal. Even a bootcamp which is way more intensive isn't the most important thing. Actually building things, competing, publishing app store apps etc are more impressive. Your degree is useful for indicating you're smart. Recruiters want to know you will pass the interviews and honestly a Coursera specialization does not prep you for that
The Truth hurts, but if you don't want to be the loser that will end up being fired then here it is, anything software will be replace with A.I very very soon. Companies wont give a fuck about you and your skills or degree.
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What roles are you interested in?
for me people help me new job
reason all the people angry
I feel freedom
0:40 Software Engineering
1:01 Product Manager
1:17 Machine Learning Engineer
1:54 Data Scientist
2:10 Full Stack Engineer
3:53 DevOps Engineer
4:04 Cloud Solutions Architect
4:19 Mobile Engineer
4:45 Frontend Engineer
5:10 Backend Engineer
Why are you sleeping on product designers? 😀
@uploadsadlibitum6264 this video is for technical jobs. See the non tech and the creative videos :)
how is product designer not a technical job? @@ColinLate
Whats the difference between full stack engineers and software engineers?
I was a UX designer focused a little more in UI and was doing really well and paid on the higher end. Then I got on maternity leave and was let go when I returned. I was thinking of project management, or would you recommend something else?
Do you not want to continue in design?
Great video for those that already have technical background. What about roles that don’t require a technical background
I'll post that one very soon! Subscribe to get notified
The only guy who explained the IT jobs briefly and was understandable. Thank you for the short and productive video! Keep up the work!!!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked the content.
Also, more productive comment / question? I am breaking into tech and fully committing. I’m leaning towards the software engineer path. Would you recommend me returning to college or an alternative form of education such as a boot camp? I’m 23 years old for reference and want to get into the industry sooner than later. Thank you , great video by the way.
It depends how much self motivation, grit, and structure you can put on yourself. Even with those programs it will take hundreds of hours to learn on your own, but they help people who just need the structure. 4 years vs 4 month bootcamp is a huge difference. If you already have a college degree, I would consider a bootcamp and building in open source and your own projects. There are tons of great online resources to try first. See if you can get yourself to learn by building something in the next two weeks with those first. Can you actually stay that dedicated? You’ll get a sense for how much support you need. I can’t tell you which is best for you but there are great resources online to help you decide specific to engineering
Hello!
Thanks for your amazing video I learnt a lot.
Am currently looking for a tech Job as a python developer, what advice do you have for me
Great to hear! There are hundreds of creators focused just on how to get into software engineering roles! I recommend following some of them to get a more detailed set of options and tips along the way.
when will you post the video about creative roles?
That one or the non-technical roles video will be coming really soon! Maybe later this week or next.
After 2 years in Java development... I m planning to switch QA Automation because I don't want much coding... Is it a right choice or which technology can I choose
Software Engineering will always pay more than something like QA automation. I mean a lot more over your career. If you hate coding, becoming a Technical Program Manager, Data Scientist, or Product Manager are other high paying paths. If you like sales/people, solutions architect is okay too.
Am having 3.5 years of experience in manual testing and 7 years career break .. now again restarting my career in testing and searching jobs and struggling to find job .. after getting job in testing I would like to upgrade my skills or move to other technology
Which one you ll suggest for me and good career growth in future .. upgrading skills in automation continue as tester or moving to DevOps engineer or moving to AI/DS/ML ?
Please reply 🙏🏻
It depends what you're looking to do. QA Engineers can be full time roles and some of them go on to become DevOps engineers if they learn about scaled system design and operations or security. It's always good to just improve your general software engineering skills so that you can get any SDE/SWE job and then specialize after you have the fundamentals in something like ML, DevOps, Data Engineering, etc.
Depends on your strengths and your passion.
May I add Solution/Sales Engineer as a job that is in high demand at this point in time. I know I am biased since that is all I talk about, but the market is there for those who want it
Great one! I have it on my list of non-coding roles video, though it is technically somewhat technical.
@@ColinLate Glad to hear that. It could be very technical, or not at all, depending on the company. Some SEs code, and some would never have to.
Hey, I need your advice. I'm a bachelor's in computer science and planning to go to the UK for my masters.
I've three options Computer Science, Data Science and Data Analysis as a degree. I want to specialize as a Machine Learning Engineer but i can afford Data Analyst degree most easily.
To be honest, master's is the only pathway for me to jump from a third world to a first world country & it's one of the main reasons I'm doing my master's.
Should i go for master's in data analysis and develop my skills in machine learning instead and pursue my career in it? or it'll be a fatal mistake?
MLE is definitely the most lucrative field and your studies will be paid multiple times by your salary. Data Analyst isn’t as good as Data Science but I’m not sure what they teach in that degree.
Look at DS and MLE compensation on levels.fyi vs Data Analyst. It is multiple times especially later in your career.
As for whether you take a degree at all, that is up to you. It seems prudent.
Computer Science and Data Science are both superior paths though
@@ColinLate
Thanks man!
Does a master's lead to higher salary?
Would i be able to work as a Machine Learning Engineer even after doing Masters in Data Analysis?
Actually I'm a fresh BS Computer Science graduate.
@@zainkhalid3670 depends on the role. Some AI roles require PhD, others require just bachelors and your own personal and professional experience in ML and AI.
Data Analyst isn’t ML so I would not expect it to help you, but I don’t know what the program even teaches. If the same school has a DS or CS degree at the same level, I would assume analyst is pretty rudimentary and mostly for business people.
What about something like Business Analyst? I see on levels fyi that they earn quite little compared to other roles
They are a non-technical role, but you are correct, they don't earn as much. In fact, just being a Data Analyst doing 60-70% the same job just on different parts of the business and less spreadsheet modeling, you can earn more. I know people who transition between them. BAs still make a good living vs. people outside tech.
What about cyber security specialists!
the engineers make more. Some specialists make a lot but there aren’t as many in levels dataset
A few friends were laid off, but most got new jobs, so it's not all doom and gloom I guess
Yea, there's still quite a bit of hiring going on. I'm hiring and most of my friend's companies are, too.
@@ColinLate How do you get a product manager role?
I have a video on that. Check out my channel
whats a better career path. data scientist or backend engineer? What pays more?
Either is good. Software Engineers have more opportunities and more competition. Data Scientists use more stats and there are fewer of them and fewer roles. Software Engineers could make more on average, but they both pay very well.
hello
I am a under grad student. What all skills should I learn for ML/AI job?
If you want to be an AI researcher, you'll want a Masters/PhD on the topic.
If you just want an ML Engineering job, you don't need all that. You do have to be #1 great at software engineering/computer science and then #2 learn a lot about how to not only build but deploy algorithms. It is not a short learning path and no two roles are alike in ML. Talk to current ML engineers and read articles on what to study written by current ML engineers on what they had to learn.
e.g. You can work as an ML engineer at a consumer app startup by integrating existing models out there into features that actually help people day to day. Other ML engineers do more primary research and build their own models. It's a wide spectrum.
You should be able to land a regular software engineer role and in addition to that have ML skills to add to it.
Are those salaries from the Sillicon Valley? According to Indeed. the national AVG salary for a Software Engineer is not 200K, it is 120K. a Data Scientist 124K. and so on..
I’m posting a brand new updated video soon with the data sources shown with percentiles for the top 23 highest paying roles so stay tuned. Also note that I’m talking about total compensation including equity which indeed does not include
Get good at Java and JavaScript and you will have a job for life 🔥☄️
Glad you’re doing that!
Can a person from outside America work as AWS cloud solution architect without college degree?
I don’t know the answer to that directly but I do know that you can get certifications for that role from AWS that could be sufficient. But the best way to find out is to find others on LinkedIn with that background
@@ColinLate thank you
Where do Cyber Security Engineers place in the rankings?
Very high....security isn’t fall in category of purely project based jobs...security is more of operation type job which requires continuous improvement all the time irrespective of growth rate in infrastructure and technology stacks
This is true though the speciality here is jobs at tech companies whereas cybersecurity specialists are more prominent at the many many jobs at many other enterprises and other businesses
Please tell me about cyber security??
I’m less familiar
I heard there is a lot of pressure when you actually get the job 😅
Wow. Which one of these can one world remotely, even out of the country?
Thank you!
Many can. It’s about the company, not the role usually
@@ColinLate Thank you!
Did brilliant crash?
How do you mean?
i want to get a certificate on coursera to move onto a coding related field (i have BS in electrical engineering)
Do you think it will help me get a job in those types of roles?
(since i already have a stem degree)
Coursera's certificate won't get you a job. It can give you some skills, but if you want to get a job you need to A) get an interview through demonstrating you actually can code (projects, internships, free work or contracts for startups, build your own app, etc.) and B) pass the interview by practicing like mad for the very very challenging and competitive coding interviews at tech companies (most use leetcode to practice, but there's more to it than that).
@@ColinLate but wont the certificate help since I already have a electrical engineering (Stem) degree and work in a electrical engineering job?
My thing is i want to break into the software/coding field where the big money is, but i am not doing any coding in my current job
Certificates will be a relatively minor signal. Even a bootcamp which is way more intensive isn't the most important thing. Actually building things, competing, publishing app store apps etc are more impressive. Your degree is useful for indicating you're smart.
Recruiters want to know you will pass the interviews and honestly a Coursera specialization does not prep you for that
Look for youtube videos from real engineers who became engineers without a degree. You'll see some different ways that can work
Has anyone told you who you look like? Just curious
The adult version or the Harry Potter version?
@@ColinLate there is a harry potter version?
Idek what im doin here with my hs diploma lol
Check out the videos for non tech roles in tech. Plenty don’t require a bachelor’s, like tech sales, design, even some ops and customer success roles.
Mobile dev here
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Sorry?
The Truth hurts, but if you don't want to be the loser that will end up being fired then here it is, anything software will be replace with A.I very very soon. Companies wont give a fuck about you and your skills or degree.
Someone directs the AI
What was the average salary for Devops engineers