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easy to ignore hate when youre pulling a 300k bonus at comp season and can jet to st. barts to go deep sea fishing and drink claws.

Data scientists do not pull that kind of bonus. Today many of them get paid less than the data engineers do.

news to me, and welcome news to hear at that since I'm more in the data plumbing and packaging business, not algo publications.

my personal data points are from folks on buyside. trading margins have been downward trending for years

Quant research work isn't data science work which is probably where the mix up is.

On the quant side bonuses are distributed to the team.