This article matches my experience exactly. Some companies will hire a “data scientist” on pedigree. They will be low on skills and high on charisma. The engineers are burdened with implementing the ideas as well as shoulder the failure of the algorithms. “You spent the last few months implementing algorithms and none worked?”. Very little blame will go to the data scientist. In tons of cases data scientists are more like product managers.
I think this might come off as negative to some, but I feel the exact same way. Very successful for my age, and I can easily date women. I am constantly let down by how low quality they are. They might be physically attractive, but beyond that I feel like I am jumping from poor relationship prospect to poor relationship for eternity.
This isn't even close to being true. All the top innovation happens here. The top 25% in American schools blow away the rest of the world, we just have a lagging bottom 25%.
Hey, I'm a very good mid level engineer looking for part time contract work. If you're interested let me know. I have a dual bachelors in math/cs and extensive backend/big data experience. I can code in other domains though