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The Good News

Snowflake is growing quickly, with a first quarter growth of 26% year-over-year. https://investors.snowflake.com/financials/quarterly-results/default.aspx

Google trends is also showing a nice uptrend.

Jim Cramer loves it. (Not sure that’s a good thing 😂)

What about Databricks?

Snowflake & Databricks started with different specializations, now they offer overlapping services.

Currently I’m focused on Snowflake. I don’t have exact data to back this up, but through my contacts, there are currently more Databricks professionals in the job market looking for work.

Snowflake jobs: Less competition -> more interview opportunities.

What part of Snowflake to focus on?

“Data Engineer” is the most common job title, but as you can imagine there are all sorts of jobs titles out there, just search on “Snowflake” to see them all.

Make a note of their newish tech “Cortex”, which can link your big data to AI models while still maintaining all the security and speed that Snowflake can deliver.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex/

Sridhar Ramaswamy (CEO) is pushing it hard, so that means their Sales Reps are pushing it hard. (and Snowflake Sales Reps are very persuasive)

Google trends also showing that it’s “breaking out” in search volume.

With Cortex API’s, you can use your existing Python and SQL skills to link the latest AI models with your data.

Expect to see “Cortex” being listed more in job ads.

Overall

• Snowflake is still growing fast.

• There is less competition for Snowflake jobs than Databricks.

• Make sure you’re up to date on their Cortex offering.

All the best Shano.