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Are you saying this because you work as a data scientist and this is personal experience (that the field is booming), or are you saying this because this is wha
by tw1010 8y ago
Are you saying this because you work as a data scientist and this is personal experience (that the field is booming), or are you saying this because this is what you've heard?
I tend to hear from actual data scientists that the field is a lot harder to get into than what the press is reporting.
- CuriouslyC 8y agoI can definitely corroborate this. If you don't have a PhD in a quant field, landing a job off your resume alone is really hard. Last time I was job hunting I tuned my resume towards data science positions, but while I got ~30% hit rate on software engineering positions, I never got a single data science callback. I've talked to a lot of data scientists, and I can't recall any without a PhD said they were initially hired for that role. I have met quite a few that were initially hired as a support programmers then moved into data science once they had their foot in the door though.
- thruflo22 8y agoI’m squarely in the field but as an entrepreneur, not a data scientist.