While the tone is a bit too negative (expected of someone leaving one place for “greener grass”), there are terrific points here that completely resonate with my own experience in data science - albeit not at a “median” place, but at a large non-Tech corp.

The biggest point I’d emphasize: “there is a general industry-wide need for people who are good at both data science and coding to oversee firms’ data science practices in a technical capacity.”

Even more, most of the data tech leaders I hear strongly suggest this is not possible without C-suite representation of a data/engineer expert (I’m talking about non-tech companies)

Finally, it’s actually not uncommon to see people shift from data science to data engineering due to similar motivations. It’s actually the technical leadership that is sometimes surprised at the shift. You hear about this in podcasts from DS/DE people.