How are you software engineering skills. Thats the biggest gap i currently see at my current employer. Way too many data scientists not able to make an impact because they are not able to put their notebooks into a product and run it in prodction.
Odd take to be honest. Like suggesting you cannot believe someone is a good materials scientist, because their CAD/mechanical design skills are not up to par with a mechanical engineer.
If you always throw over the wall, you probably don't understand how results that look good in a Jupyter notebook can easily fall apart in the real world.