Fun Facts about Data Engineers

1. Data engineers are hard to find.

Data engineers are new and rare. Just 18% of companies have a data team and less than 6% of companies have a data engineer or team (Data Engineer Hiring Report from LinkedIn).

2. Data engineers aren’t considered “real engineers.”

Data engineers aren’t considered “real engineers” because many companies reporting to a product lead (for example) don’t consider building analytics to be an engineering problem. They instead view it as a marketing problem.