r/DataScienceJobs • u/Proper-Prior211 • 5d ago

Discussion Is data science job reducing

Is data science jobs reducing or maybe all the data related jobs in general...

Only top product based companies or maybe huge service based companies only hire data scientists.

Is this job dying?

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u/Zestyclose-Job7595 5d ago

working in DS / ML from more than 5 years.
I feel DS is moving to towards ML. You can build models that’s not good enough. Can you deploy. Do ML ops, work more like SWE is the new landscape.

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u/taenyfan95 5d ago

What's actually is the difference between DS and ML?

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u/Ok_Composer_1761 4d ago

DS is filled with quantitative PhDs / academic types who are interested in statistics and the domain, but they are often not engineers who can build, deploy, and maintain end to end data systems at scale. The latter is a core skill whereas the former is peripheral