Is luck important when looking for a good job?

I don't mean to throw hate at other data scientist, but I've been looking around for LinkedIn profiles of lead data scientist or simply data scientist that work in relatively good and big companies (i.e. Microsoft, Meta, Rappi) and most of them have masters/bachelors that are not directly related to Data Science and I can't avoid asking ¿how do they get those jobs? ¿Is applying in the 'right time' a factor (and maybe even a more important factor than experience …

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