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am i screwed CV wise

TL;DR:

hoppy cv, can't find a good data engineering job, what do i do

I graduated 2021 in a good Japanese uni, and started hopping fairly quickly.

  1. technical consulting, Indian firm, new grad, 8 mo

  2. data scientist, infra engineer, data engineer (at the same time), crypto startup, japanese, 8 mo

  3. big FMCG, data engineer, japanese, 14mo

  4. big pharma, data lead, 16mo

  5. US SaaS, technical consulting lead, on going 19th mo

problem is my current position is ok -- good salary full remote, but i really don't like the job itself and i had to learn a lot of stuff that's useless in industry (domain stuff, internal tools, stupid workflow that some dude made in 2002 and local dudes made it 100x more complicated)

So i was looking for an out, got into interview with couple of big brands but no offer. one reached final and i really killed the interview, but they came back as 'yeah we're looking at something specific that you don't have'. so that was a bummer.

I'm just wondering at this point it's gotta be my hoppy cv that's the hard part to convince companies, or is it my salary that's too high for a 6th year? should i stay at current place and be grateful, try to embrace it even if it means i wake up finding myself completely obsolete?

Posted Jun 30, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

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