Is it a problem if you’re a “full stack” developer but the company you work for has your title as “data analyst”? Meaning your teams builds and maintains every aspect of a website that the company employees use in their daily jobs and all that...

I’m just curious how that affects pay, your resume, etc. New to all things tech related so please excuse my ignorance. I just haven’t seen that before.

Considering that what you do has very little with the title to do I doubt it has any impact at your current job.

It might have an impact on future jobs if you can fill the role, Data analyst is often a higher position as you help marketing or management to make decisions.

But its very much up to the company if it does matter.

And in case you are worried or suspect that the company you are applying to has false hopes, be honest about it, or go for it knowing it might blow up.

Data analysis is not Dev work - wait hear me out...

Data analysis is more about big data and less about system processors, sure you need a DBA or two and maybe a dev to handle data transformation depending on the sources of data but it's not "build a website" kind of dev.

If you role is a DA, why are you doing webDev?

at the end of the day it won't have an impact if you don't add DA to your CV when you move on, just add FullStack as this is what your role actually is, your title is another thing.

Sounds like a company that hasn't/is too lazy to add positions and is just reusing pay scales.

Just put what you actually are on LinkedIn, resume etc. It's doubtful anyone will be intimately familiar with your employers position titles.

That said, if your company has the title and you don't have it, then, you aren't it. 🤷‍♀️

@SortOfTested thank you for the response. I actually am not in this role but have been shadowing people in it and I was just surprised at how much they were doing that didn’t seem like typical data analyst stuff...I think they might want me on the team eventually but I didn’t want to get on board if the data analyst title is just to save the company cash. HR might just be lagging behind or whatever, I don’t know.

@C0D4 guess I should’ve clarified it isn’t me but people I’ve been sitting with to see what they’re doing. I think the team is relatively new compared to other teams so maybe they’re just now doing more things outside the scope of what they were initially created to do and they will eventually change titles and pay grades but not totally sure. I was curious if this is something companies do to save on salaries or if it might be that the people in charge are just sort of incompetent and don’t understand the differences lol.

@Voxera hmm that’s an interesting perspective on data analysts...seems like where I work they’re sometimes just a step or two above a technician (data entry/customer service etc). But that could just be on the side I work in. The data analysts were sort of hinting that they aren’t fairly compensated for their programming so that’s where my question was coming from. Maybe the developers are just underpaid in general though, idk. It’s a big insurance company.

@jbrandona119
You're right to worry, it's a dangerous misclassification.

Data analyst is low paying scut work in pretty much every industry. Goldman Sachs only pays them avg $100k in NYC, £57k in london with significant experience, much less elsewhere. Not a title you want if you're not looking to parlay it into a trading position on wall street (which usually doesn't work without ivy league paper).