Data science vs Consulting

I went through a bunch of tech and operational roles for 5 years. For 1.5 years till 6 months ago, I was in an academia adjacent research role heavy on data analytics. Last 6 months I have moved to a full fledged data science role. Not much of neural networks/deep learning. Most work is tabulation and/or random forests, logistic regression and such.

I might potentially get an offer to move into consulting (not MBB but globally known).

For many years, …

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