Reviewing Google's Data Engineer Certificate - Is It Worth Your Time And What Will You Learn?

Can you get a data engineering position without a degree?

Is the Google data engineering certificate worth getting?

All of these are valid questions to ask and I have a lot of people asking questions about how to get a data engineering roles.

Whether they are analysts who want to switch roles into data engineering or CS students who are looking at big data as a career.

There are lots of valid reasons why you should look towards certification programs like the Google Cloud Data Engineering certificate.

I spent the last month going through the certification and have plenty of thoughts.

I think the overall program covers a lot of core concepts for data engineers.

They cover a lot of key concepts.

However, I do think you will need to round out what they cover with some of the resources below:

Data Engineering Starter Road Map(Assuming you already know programming):

1. Kimball's Data Warehouse Tool Kit(Free!) - Understand the basics of ETL and DW design
https://aatinegar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kimball_The-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-3rd-Edition.pdf

2. Data Warehouse Fundamentals for Beginners - Applied DW and ETL design

https://bit.ly/35zKfbf
3. Anything by Frank Kane (Hadoop, Spark, etc)
https://bit.ly/3gMLwAU

4. Stop doing tutorials and build a project
https://youtu.be/LJkVvNWlO0g

So good luck with your DE career. And here are some more resources you may enjoy.

What Skills Do Data Engineers Need?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSHaOvNodA

If you want to learn more about data engineering, check out Googles Data Engineering Course
* https://bit.ly/3c3woxu

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Back to my story:

Early in my career I started as an analyst working in healthcare but I eventually found myself in the role of data engineer at a FAANG and it's really been a great learning experience.

Along the way I learned how to operate on an engineering team.

How to follow good engineering practices and just in general, develop maintainable systems.

Now that companies are starting to hire even more rapidly for data engineers, I wanted to provide my story for how I went from being a data analyst to data engineer.

From taking the initiative to develop products, to self learning. All of it was required to really challenge myself to be a DE.

Thanks for reading and good luck on your data engineering journey.

Tags: Data engineering projects, Data engineer project ideas, data project sources, data analytics project sources, data project portfolio

0:00 Intro - Skip If You Just Want My Review
1:13 About Me - Skip If You Just Want My Review
1:58 Reviewing The Google Cloud Data Engineer Program
3:22 Course Overview Google Cloud Data Engineer
7:20 Tools You Will Learn
9:57 Gaps And What I Liked About GCPs Certificate Program

About Me:

I have spent his career focused on all forms of data. I have focused on developing algorithms to detect fraud, reduce patient readmission and redesign insurance provider policy to help reduce the overall cost of healthcare. I have also helped develop analytics for marketing and IT operations in order to optimize limited resources such as employees and budget. I privately consults on data science and engineering problems both solo as well as with a company called Acheron Analytics. I have experience both working hands-on with technical problems as well as helping leadership teams develop strategies to maximize their data.

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