[PaulHoule]

My negative stereotype of the "data scientist" is a person who doesn't want to "get their hands dirty" and doesn't do anything they don't want to do, such as

  * check their code into version control
  * use the same Python as the rest of the team
  * produce a script that makes the monthly sales report every month instead of a Jupyter notebook that they run just once to make one monthly sales report

It's totally fair for someone like that to work with someone who has more programming experience but often the teamwork isn't there. If it is, you can really put your skills on wheels.

In a bigger or more established company you can have a lot of compartmentalization and people don't get excited about inefficiency but startups really need people who are team-oriented and will get things done regardless of job titles. In a company like that you should be working on tasks that "move the football down the field" and that will make your stock options worth something in the end.