[garciasn]

Hiring leader for a DE/DS team at a Digital Marketing agency; I feel the exact same.

I strongly prefer folks from non-specific degree programs who come with a desire to learn as opposed to deep experience in a program tailor made for a specific niche subject where degree candidates learned on absurdly simplistic or unrealistic data and models.

The modeling itself is largely meaningless and simple to execute against. It’s the data and the insights that matter and I haven’t yet seen a niche designer masters program graduate who actually could show me a meaningful end-to-end project they were truly passionate about.