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by brutus1213 2232 days ago
You may want to act fast. Data science and deep learning are still a bit young, and I can see shops hiring someone with strong math chops. I have some direct experience with this as well (on the hiring side). However, this may not persist for a long time. I saw the same in finance. In the early days, people would hire smart people with math backgrounds for finance roles. After a while, universities started to have specialized Masters degrees in quantitative finance. Speaking to friends, this seemed to have made it harder to break in for someone with just math talent.