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Awesome, so what qualifications do your Data Science team members have and would you hire someone without a degree? Or what if they had a data science / ML / AI MOOC like Udacity or Coursera? And do you have any advice for OP or others who don't have degrees?

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We've interviewed people without degrees for SWE positions. I don't think we've hired any.

I wouldn't rule it out, but it would be useful to have accomplishments to point to, or a personal recommendation.

We have a stack of maybe 25 well qualified PhD data scientists waiting for interviews. It takes a lot to get to the head of that line.

Interesting. So perhaps tales of shortages are bullshit?

It's pretty hard to find people who know how to apply the tools that they have to new problems.

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