Made the jump recently from being a research scientist. Started interviewing again and keep bombing soft skill questions due to lack of experience, please help.

I know the answer is to gain more experience. But my boss is completely against any sort of automation, and he's stopped me talking to stakeholders. He's told me he'll relay anything important but doesn't.

He won't let me use R. He wants all analysis manually in excel. He won't even let me link Microsoft SQL server with excel with power query. There's a developer in the team that wants to automate it too but he's not allowed.

I am …

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