[wirrbel]

> there is less good competition in the field of DataScience

In my experience, it is probably easier to differentiate yourself and proof your worth by producing great products in software engineering.

Data science is overrun at the moment by everyone chasing the hype. So it is kind of hard to proof your worth by producing great data science, you just will not be heard among all the shouting of people, sub-orgs and consultants trying to sell their latest deep learning model for a data-set that would fit on a floppy disk (okay, that was exagerated, a zip drive).