The thing is : Data Science requires ... "scientific" rigor and thought process. A lot of people who hire often forget that science is integral to data science: it's right there in the name.
Very few companies are actually using their data scientists as scientists. From my experience.Except for when I worked at a large hospital. We had a research board, and had to be certified to study Humans CITI. But beyond that..
In what way is what statisticians do not "scientific"? Setting up and rejecting (or not) the null hypothesis is the very definition of the scientific process...