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Oh we disagree entirely. I am openly mocking the idea that you should learn the job by not doing it. That data scientists are just oh so special that no one can be a junior at it.

It's ridiculous. If you can't mentor someone at the job, then that speaks to your failures. It's not the job that's the problem.

Junior anything needs a lot of supervision, it's probably the defining trait of a junior.

The degree should get you to a point where you can actually learn the job.

You hire juniors and give them as much work as they can do with supervision.

It's not a shortcoming of the educational system. People need experience to be good at things. Engineers take years after school, doctors take years after school.

It's a job you grow into by not working at the job.

If you can't grow people at your company then no one should work for you. That simple.