[disgruntledphd2]

> There were no opportunities on the data science team since I didn't have an MSc

As an aside, this is total nonsense. For gods sake, if someone has the skills to do data science (and if you can code and do analysis then you definitely do) arbitrary gatekeeping on a credential makes no goddamn sense.

EDIT: > At the same time, I underestimated how little my experience as a data analyst meant to data science teams.

Not all data science teams, I've been doing this for a while and absolutely adore getting people with analytics experience, as it's critical to success in a lot of DS teams and is hard to train.