The Analytics Engineering Podcast Career Growth in Data Roles (w/ Hubspot's Kasey Mazza at Coalesce 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 Kasey Mazza, analytics engineering manager at HubSpot, discusses the roles of data analysts and analytics engineers, building internal data communities, and the evolving landscape of data teams. They also explore career growth and satisfaction, the interplay between organizational structures and tooling, challenges in decision-making and central governance, using DBT across the company, and the future of the data industry.
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Career Growth Is A Lifecycle
- Career growth is an iterative lifecycle similar to software development and needs intentional planning.
- Treat career development as cyclical work you revisit and improve over time.
Finding Flow In Analytics Engineering
- Kasey moved from general analytics to analytics engineering and found the work energizing and flow-inducing.
- She describes analytics engineering as using a different, more creative part of her brain than pure analysis.
Collect Skills, Not Titles
- Focus on growing specific skills instead of chasing titles or the next job label.
- Combine the skills that energize you to craft roles and responsibilities that fit your strengths.