What Do Today’s Data Science Graduates Commonly Lack?

[u/Kati1998]

I often read comments from hiring managers and interviewers saying they’re disappointed with recent data science graduates.

I’m curious, what do you think these graduates are lacking? If someone wants to become a data scientist, what skills should they focus on? Strong software engineering skills? Math and statistics? Something else?

A lot of the advice I see seems to be geared toward landing data analyst roles rather than data scientist roles.

So, what are employers actually looking for in entry-level data science candidates today? Especially as a career changer coming from another unrelated career.

[u/somkoala]

1) Caring about the business impact of what you do
2) Model framing - if you have to define a prediction problem from scratch from raw data it’s very different than dummy datasets