I was more experienced with predictive algorithms and deep learning than any of the data scientists at the company but because they were brought in from an acquisition of a company that had an undeserved reputation due to a loose affiliation with MIT, they were treated like magicians while the rest of us were treated like blacksmiths.

I had the choice and I made the choice to leave. And of course I raised hell with the bosses about them not writing remotely production quality code that required extensive refactoring.

And yes I was paid to do the work but the work occupied time that I could have spent working on the other projects I had that were more commercially successful but less sexy to Silicon Valley VCs who look at valuations based on other companies' newest hottest product.