[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is the industry saturated with data scientis...
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       Ask HN: Is the industry saturated with data scientists already?
        
       I'm still pretty early in my career, which I started as a software
       developer. I transitioned into a data scientist role about a year
       ago, then moved to the USA for a Master's degree in AI/DS.  Here
       I'm seeing a trend of software developers being paid better than
       data scientists in general, and I was wondering if I've made a
       mistake transitioning away from software development. The number of
       opportunities also seem to be dwindling (or maybe I'm not looking
       well enough, please feel free to correct me).  My question is this:
       Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause the
       market to become saturated, or is it still a viable career path?
        
       Author : legobridge
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-12-22 22:38 UTC (24 minutes ago)
        
       | sebg wrote:
       | > Is the industry saturated with data scientists already? No :)
       | 
       | > Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause
       | the market to become saturated No :)
       | 
       | > is it still a viable career path? Yes
       | 
       | Source:
       | 
       | a) I Co-run the Data Science Weekly newsletter.
       | 
       | b) I was a mod of https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/ from 15k
       | to 30k members and people were asking that about 5 to 6 years
       | ago. The sub now has ~829k members and that question still comes
       | up.
       | 
       | > The number of opportunities also seem to be dwindling The
       | reason for this is that initial it was "data science", then it
       | was "data science and machine learning researcher", then it was
       | "data science and data engineerings and machine learning
       | researcher", then it was "ai, data scientists, machine learning
       | researcher, machine learning engineering, data engineer, nlp",
       | etc. So the jobs have multiplied but so have the position titles
       | as well. So while you could just search for data scientist
       | positions before you now have to get a bit more specific.
        
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