Data Scientist Career Outlook
I'm a PhD biologist from a reputable school with a recent MBA and 3.5 years experience in the c-suite at healthcare and biotech startups. I've now decided to leave my position after the startup I'm with developed a power struggle (long story) and that paired with a number of other reasons has me just wanting to find a position where I can use my analytical skills from home and earn a comfortable living. Though biology is wonderful, it hasn't treated me well from a career perspective. I'm not skilled at programming but I'm talented at quant analysis and statistics and know rudimentary R. My goals: - earn $100k - $150k - work remotely from anywhere My Questions: 1) What are some suggestions for good online programs to qualify for data scientist jobs? (And am I missing more qualifications?) 2) What percentage of data scientist jobs are remote vs. on-site? 3) Are these remote jobs highly competitive? Would I have a competitive advantage? (I'm effective at managing teams and research projects and would bring a unique perspective). 4) In the foreseeable future will the supply of data scientist job opportunities be able to keep up with the demand from qualified job-seekers? 5) Anything else I should be considering about this industry? Thanks in advance, and just wanted to emphasize I'm very hard working and looking for a mentor.
Sorry I should clarify it's not just "politics" that's making me leave my current job: it was a case of "fraudulent inducement of employment" (they over-promised, delayed for months in making it official, and then tried to renege)... So I'm just done with the company.
“I'm not skilled at programming” — this is what you need to work on, not certifications. Most companies need doers, not theoreticians.
Indeed--the point of the inquiry was to understand career outlook prior to wasting the time of studying an additional specialized skillset.
I think you'd do better at consulting than data science. It might be more fulfilling as well. Study for case interviews at McKinsey and BCG and opt for more quant type roles.
I already have worked in consulting pharma and it's not been particularly fulfilling but it is a good remote job. I can always fall back to that... Just wanted to see if data science was something I could switch careers to at this point and find a reasonable amount of remote job opportunities.
Data science is hugely collaborative. Add politics to that and you'll find it extremely hard to do your job if people don't cooperate to take your models to production. In fact even to get the right models you'll have to re understand and re formulate the question. Complete remote is hard.
Can you SQL? I know a place with a few Analytics openings
How will you survive the politics game where other DS, eng, and PM will try and play to your disadvantage, without being in the office?
Apologies... It appeared it could be a good job to perform remotely but perhaps not.
I've seen it happen, but not without the problems you've mentioned. Was wondering if you have a better idea of dealing with such "LDR" issues, as I think team management roles tend to be highly demanding in terms of communication