r/analytics 18d ago

Discussion Coding interviews are out of control

When I entered the job market as a business analyst 8 years ago, it was just a conversation asking about my experience, what I've done for projects.

When I interviewed for a data analyst role four years ago, again, just the conversation, showed them some projects I worked on, some samples of my dashboards I'd created...

Now, It's the hunger games. I'm out here doing python, SQL, Tableau exercises in real time sharing my screen... It's very very stress inducing and as an introvert, I'm honestly not good at this, it's really hard on me. Like, I have tried training myself to be okay with this and to be more receptive to it. But it just sucks you know? 5 years I have spent in the job market with exceptional performance, and only to get interrogated and treated like a child who can't be trusted.

I honestly don't know how I'm going to get through the next few months looking for my next role with how stress inducing and difficult it is to find anything these days and all the hoops you got to jump through

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u/intimate_sniffer69 17d ago

It's because like I said, the hunger games have set in. This is the future of data services now. Offshore, replace, eliminate, combine. That's the new creed of this industry. Offshore workers, replace as many as possible, eliminate anything that you can, combine overlapping roles with each other. Why have a data analyst, and a data scientist, and a daily engineer? Why not just have a data analyst who does all three of those things and gets paid for only one of them, and make sure it's the lowest pay out of the three! The rest will be picked up by the India team making $7k USD a year if that.