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i think you may be overestimating the avg. past data scientist's software engineering chops, but it's definitely true that the term has become more diluted than

by bllguo 3y ago

i think you may be overestimating the avg. past data scientist's software engineering chops, but it's definitely true that the term has become more diluted than ever you still find these kinds of people and roles at smaller companies but at largecorps, what's the point? the interesting modelbuilding you shunt off to your army of phd-holding research scientists. deploying models and managing infra goes to MLE. what's left is the data analyst stuff, which you repackage as "data science" because cmon, "analytics"? are we dinosaurs? this is modern tech, we have an image to uphold! there's not really a need for, or supply of, people who can do everything (edit: _at largecorps_, obviously)

itsoktocry 3y ago
>There's not really a need for Oh sure, if you have teams of research scientists and machine learning engineers to shunt the work to. That's, like, what? 5% of companies out there? Less? No need, indeed.
- bllguo 3y ago
  so why exactly did you skip the first sentence of the paragraph so that you could make a self-evident point? anyway that 5% hires a disproportionately larger # of "data scientists"