[SatvikBeri]

I have similar experiences. To add some color: I find that for data science tasks, someone who knows statistics & can program is much, much more productive than someone who only knows one. Part of that is because data science has to do their own product management–the question you ask next changes quite rapidly depending on the results of a single query.

That said, most companies should probably be hiring data engineers rather than data scientists–for most "data science" jobs I've seen, almost no statistics is actually necessary/useful.