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There is plenty, probably majority, of people doing computer science degrees because they want to become software developer without any intention of pursuing tenure.

The same way as data scientist position has mostly nothing to do with publishing in peer reviewed venues with high impact factor.

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"data scientist" is an conflated title created by business people in this industry. The word scientist has a specific meaning which is doing original research.

Also people in this thread seem to think a "computer science" undergrad degree is somehow related to computer scientist the working title. My understanding is that you start the pathway to a science career with a grad degree, like you start an engineering career with a job. Before the job or the grad degree you're no engineer/scientist

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