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Their ability to code is usually sub-par, but they ask the right questions about the data, which is critical in the data setting that we work in.

We don't work in advertising / marketing / business analytics, which is very easy to have an intuition about; and we don't strictly work with images, which, again, isn't terribly difficult to have an intuition about. So a strong scientific background is actually a major plus for us.

I could see that if we were doing purely deep learning image classification or advertising prediction then the physics degrees would be less useful, but thankfully we don't.