>I think what companies really want is smart generalists with advanced math, programming, and modeling skills coupled with domain knowledge. That skill set will

>I think what companies really want is smart generalists with advanced math, programming, and modeling skills coupled with domain knowledge. That skill set will always carry high value in technical companies. What companies want is to be "in" on the data science hype, while they have no clue what they are doing and the most advanced "data science" they need are simple graphs, boxplots, and linear regressions.