Ironic how in today's market the applied math dude could easily transition into some higher paying role like ML Engineer or Data Scientist. Not knocking those r

Ironic how in today's market the applied math dude could easily transition into some higher paying role like ML Engineer or Data Scientist. Not knocking those roles by any means, but the tech world seems ravenous for algorithms. From my experience, algorithms are easy and the software engineering is hard. What’s more, many, not all, but many of these algorithm scientists look down on their programmer counterparts. It’s these folks who end up making the algorithm successful for the company.