I've noticed a trend of basically any PhD who knows Python getting hired to join any of the many growing "data science" teams in large companies. Despite having

I've noticed a trend of basically any PhD who knows Python getting hired to join any of the many growing "data science" teams in large companies. Despite having PhDs (usually in non-related fields like biology or even education) most of these people know very little about engineering, statistics, CS and surprisingly science. All they know how to do is stitch together a bunch of keras code and try to get some arbitrary cost function drop. I immediately realized that we are definitely in some kind of bubble, and that last time I saw this was the dotcom era. The new HTML is python + some NN library. As soon as the next recession really hits companies are going to realize that the majority of these data science projects are just huge houses of cards that provide questionable value. I honestly miss the post-dotcom era, where nearly everyone in tech was genuinely interested in the field and solving interesting problems. I guess enjoy the fact that salaries are high and work is stupidly easy to get now, I suspect the party will be over pretty soon.