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Recently I wrote a tweetstorm of my not-so-great experience hunting for a data science job last summer: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848

Despite data science being a hot job, the sheer, growing number of MOOCs available will cause the high amount gatekeeping from many prospective employers to get even worse.

I am very happy as a data scientist now, and yes, it's more complicated than doing Excel VLOOKUPs! Although I did get rejected from those VLOOKUP positions many times in my job search...

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This article makes it sound like you can just walk into a DS position. No. Expect a months-long job search if you don't have a PhD.

Maybe but once you are in you have the golden ticket. Source: am a current DS with an MS and like the guy in the article I get contacted by recruiters weekly.

Ha yea I lucked into one 0:) Came from DE side and snuck me in so we can get things done.

sheer, growing number of MOOCs available will cause the high amount gatekeeping from many prospective employers

I did a MOOC, nothing wrong with them. A lot of it turned out to be just revising things I had originally learned in my BEng or MSc, but I learned some things too. And a bit of revision never hurt. I don’t think I had done much calculus “in anger” since graduating for example, so that was rusty.

In 5 years or 10 years there will be no data scientists as a full time job - the skills will just be folded into regular programming jobs or accounting jobs or whatever. If you’re in that job now, make hay while the sun shines

"In ten years all programming will be either outsourced or automated..."

-everyone in the 90s

When I started in this game, just being able to put up a website made you hot stuff. HTML and CGI were cutting edge. But for a long time now, those skills are totally commoditized. That’s what I mean.

"Full Stack Developer" will mean everything from heavy front-end dev work to scaling out a monolithic in-house back-end framework into microservices to cobbling together Android/iOS apps to slapping ML on top of it all and calling it a day.

Oh and it will all run on JS.

See http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/11/07/which-full-stack-de...

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