Relatively young but rewarding industry, not many keen in pursuing this path.

Casually talked with peers in software engineering, there's this assumption data = boring and repetitive.

Been in this industry for about 5 years, getting poached left and right (mostly from SGP and China) so it seems talent demand outstrips supply by far.

What you need to thrive in this industry:
- Good communication and presentation skill.
- Technical (SQL/HDFS/R/Python etc)
- Statistics competency (segmentation/clustering etc)
- Business domain knowledge (financial/tech/fmcg etc)
- Creative/able to look at problem from many perspectives compared to traditional engineering.

Looking to return to Msia in couple years time. Hit me up if TS looking for not so distant future prospect.