Do you think data science is still the sexiest job of the 21st century? Why or Why not?
From what I can tell title of the aforementioned has changed to "Data Engineer" or something similar.
> "Do you think data science is still the sexiest job of the 21st century? Why or Why not?"
Seems like a good job as far as jobs go. You don't have to lift heavy things, not likely to die in the process of doing your job. Usually pays well, and your family will be proud of you when they talk about you at cocktail parties. So yea... its a pretty good job.
As someone who has been in various roles in SF tech scene for a few years now, I've never thought of "data scientist" as a "sexy" job at all. You are basically a data analyst spending more than half your time cleaning data and waiting for queries to finish running.
Same goes for product managers...very few, if any, have authority over the actual "product vision" and spend most of their time writing tickets, project managing, in meetings.
Basically what recruiters want because companies want them (irrespective of need), they have high salary expectations and recruiters work on commission.