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Hey y'all.&nbsp;I work as a data scientist in finance.&nbsp;I find that most non-tech companies have little to no data engineering skills. The cast majority of my time is spent bailing the company out of excel spreadsheet hell. I don't mind the work. I've gotten to write some pretty cute scripts to manage ETL.&nbsp;I'm wondering if anyone else has found that most companies are also severely lacking the prereqs for data science/ML, or if i just have a sampling error from my work history.&nbsp;

KeyboardCrumbs · Accepted Answer

I'm only at my first data scientist position but I'm in insurance and we have good data engineering support

data35 · Answer

I'd imagine it's especially bad at a finance company considering 99% (I'm guessing) of finance people only work out of excel so they don't understand why you need to work outside of it

qij3111kKu1 · Answer

Another q is, can most companies afford a quality datasci/ml program?

I'd argue YES, but they lack the insight to see the longterm value. Hence why they need it when things go wrong.

cbwww · Answer

The term data scientist is getting overused because they sounded cool. In fact there are way too many companies just branding their roles to data scientist just to make hiring easier

sds84 · Answer

This has definitely been my experience.

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