Comment by jmye

> because setting up a 'Modern Data Stack' is what gets you promoted

It’s not just that, it’s that you better know their specific tech stack to even get hired. It’s a lot of dumb engineering leaders pretending that AWS, Azure and Snowflake are such wildly different ecosystems that not having direct experience in theirs is disqualifying (for pure DE roles, not talking broader sysadmin).

The entire data world is rife with people who don’t have the faintest clue what they’re doing, who really like buzzwords, and who have never thought about their problem space critically.