EconCS in Industry: Skills to Succeed as an Applied Scientist

In our years as applied scientists and managers at Google, Amazon, and Meta, we have seen both the strengths that EconCS researchers can leverage in industry, as well as common challenges that these researchers face. Most EconCS PhD programs do not emphasize exploratory data analysis, applied machine learning and statistics, or a coding mindset, even though these are valuable skills to have in industry. In this article we share how these skills are leveraged, and how you can invest in building these skills now. In doing so, we hope to make it easier for people from the EconCS community to be successful in industry, be it during an internship, a sabbatical, as a part-time consultant, or as a full time applied scientist!