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The reason that path is an exception is that generally-speaking (in VHCOL areas at least), a developer job is as good or superior a job pay-wise to a data science job.

Also, since DS is so broad skillset-wise, it's basically a catch-all starter career for everyone that doesn't have CS/ SWE experience and training specifically, but does have some non-CS STEM training.

Most software engineers know nothing about software engineering. Hop on over to any thread about hiring and you will see plenty of comments about SE candidates failing fizz buzz.

> many couldn't implement fizzbuzz without a library.

case in point: this article teaching them how to do so to pass interviews https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-solve-the-fizzbuzz-pro...