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- What’s your power level? For entertainment purposes only. 1. Humpback whale: Successful founder 2. Whale: Early employee of successful company 3. Shark: Research scientist at deepmind/open ai/google brain/FAIR/Microsoft research 4. Dolphin: Quant at Jane street/DE Shaw/Citadel/Two sigma 5. Flying fish: Applied scientist (p
- vote How much pay cut are you willing to take in order to work on something you are really passionate about? This is a similar question as “how much raise do you need to work on an uninteresting job”. As people in that question mentioned interesting job is invaluable, I’m curious how much people would pay for the job they are really passionate about. As for myself, I am interested in pioneer engineering
- Switch as SWE for higher pay or prep for AS ? I have always been fascinated with applied scientist roles in Amazon / Microsoft / deepMind / Fair . I am a senior software engineer but am perplexed if I should jump now into another SWE role for a higher pay (market is hot) OR should I take about a year’s time to prep for AS role from scratch ? W
- Google team transfer to Waymo I will be joining Google really soon and was wondering how easy the internal transfers are. I am specifically interested in transferring to Waymo. Can someone share their experience transferring from a regular team (i.e. search, ads, Youtube, Maps, etc) to some specialized team (Waymo, Brain, DeepMi
- Interview for RS/AS/RE Hey folks! Just wanna take last information about interview to Research Scientist / Applied Scientist / Research Engineer positions in FAANG, DeepMind, Snap etc. I think LeetCode is easy-medium level (not so strong like SWE/MLE), some big interviews about ML (maybe some theory) and behavioural wit
- vote Is Google Health waste of money? Google Health seems hiring many Healthcare industry experts with very big CVs with very very big paychecks, and tries to match them with 100s of SWEs who don't understand anything about healthcare industry. The amount of money it is burning is probably approaching to Deepmind at this point, with ver
- Are you interviewing with other companies? I asked my friend for referral in Deepmind. Among other things, they ask, "Is this person interviewing with other companies"? Why do they need to know this, and what should I say? I am not interviewing (applied but haven't even spoken to any recruiters yet) with anyone else yet, but if I am prepari
- Definite rankings of prestige.. 1. Founder of successful startup 2. First employees of successful start up 3. Research scientist (deepmind, open AI, google brain, FAIR, Microsoft research) 4. Quants (Jane street / DE Shaw / citadel securities, etc) 5. Engineering positions at companies from 3/4 6. Applied scientists at FAANG (not
- Math / physics / cs phd worth it? Been working in AI product development for past 3 years. Need more growth and want to be involved in the cutting edge of research, or working at a place like DeepMind. I love math and physics (majored in math, read dozens of physics textbooks for fun) but I’ve always heard that a phd in those subje
- Research Scientist without PhD? Would it be possible for a company like DeepMind or Brain to hire a RS without a PhD? Suppose I had 3-5 years of experience of being a staff researcher at an Ivy league institution, and 3-5 years of experience as a research scientist at a late stage expiremental tech startup. In addition, a couple
- REU at Top 1 CS School or TPM Intern Role at Expedia Hey everyone, so I got a REU offer (Research Experience for Undergraduate) from a top 2 CS school in the nation but I also got another offer for a TPM Role at Expedia. My question is, what's the best choice? Been doing research my whole undergrad career and thought I wanted to do a PhD that way I co
- vote Do tons of internships vs full time for a year I deferred my master programs till next fall (honestly, not even sure I will go) so I have a gap year. Did CS undergrad in mid tier school. I already did 4 internships, 2 at Big N (think Salesforce, Nvidia, Cisco) 1 at big pharma, 1 at medium size hardware company all in ML. Should I do a bunch of
- vote JP Morgan AI Research I received an offer from JP Morgan AI Research and wanted to know what people thought of this group. This group is separate from the SWEs and the data scientists, and acts more like Bell Labs or Google Brain from what I have heard, but I would love to gain perspective from those that are in the know
- FAANG Is overrated and we should stop talking about? It's no longer relevant and really unnecessary. It creates a sort of "class boundary" between those in FAANG and those not in FAANG. It also just doesn't make sense. Is Facebook really in the same caliber as Amazon or Google right now? I wouldn't say so. Additionally lots of people here would be pr
- Go for PhD after 2.5 years in industry Some context: ~2.5 yoe in an applied research group in industry, 85% boring work and 15% interesting work. Contacted one professor in top 10 universities in ai research and he’s willing to take me, but his lab doesn’t really produce many papers in top conferences in recent years. Considering the po
- Seeking ML engineer Referral Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies for Machine learning engineer/Data scientist/Data Analyst positions. LC 50+ Education: MSc. CS YOE Software dev: 1 year YOE ML engineer: 3 years Please drop a comment so I can DM you my info. Thanks in advance! #referral
- Does ph.d matters? Assuming of course it’s not from Stanford, MIT, or Berkeley (which obviously helps), does having a ph.d boost your TC? My current status is 5 YOE (+ phd in engineering, not CS) 180 base + 40+ RSU per year And I think I see bachelor with 3 YOE paid more (source: Blind, levels.fyi). Am I just gett
- vote Splitting Alphabet is good I have been getting a feeling lately that there is a growing negative in-general perception about Alphabet as a whole especially from stock growth point of view. I feel that some of the beasts that we have are much more worth than they are in hiding e.g. waymo, verily, YouTube , deepmind, cloud and
- Jane Street or PhD? 22 years old, graduating with my undergrad in math. I have an offer for Jane Street, 300k tc + 75k signon. I also have an offer to work with a professor which has a very good alumni track record (almost all of them are Deepmind / Gbrain / etc or in academia still) for my PhD. I'm in the process of
- future is bleak. Google is a mirage. there is no way that some one just reads ds and algos overnight and cracks google interview. if they did, then they are hiding something. Either their mind is trained to catch these problems or they are secretly practicing a lot or they are white. don’t see any other way forward. Looks like I have t
- Updated Company Tier/Prestige Ranking I haven't seen an accurate Prestige Tier List in a long time so I decided I will do a comprehensive list with accurate information for the tech industry. If your company is not on the list there is probably a good reason for it. If you disagree just lmk and I might be able to adjust a little but thi
- FAANG+ referrals for research/ML-oriented postions Hello everyone, I'm finishing my master's degree in applied mathematics and data science and have some experiences as a data scientist and as a ML quant in a hedge fund. I'd really love to stay in the tech industry especially in a FAANG+ in order to follow a more research-oriented path (Google's X
- New grad looking for FAANG+ referrals (DS and ML) USA/UK Hello everyone, I'm finishing my master's degree in applied mathematics and data science and have some experiences as a data scientist and as a ml quant in a hedge fund. (French selective engineering school) I'd really love to stay in the tech industry especially in a FAANG+ in order to follow a mo
- vote FAIR vs FRL (or MAIR vs MRL now?!) I've been seeing few interesting works being done in the reality labs for the past few months. I foresee that VR / AR (or metaverse) growing in the next decade, and that Meta is going to invest a lot of money in the Reality labs. On the other hand, FAIR / Google Brain / DeepMind / OpenAI has been o
- ML Engineer or Master's? I'm graduating early next year from my bachelor's and recently received an offer to join a unicorn, potentially on an ML team. Work would mostly be around ads and recommendations/feed ranking. My alternative to this would be to stay in school and do a thesis-based Master's in 8-12 months. I don't w
- Best companies/teams for high-impact machine learning? Current PhD student working in ML. Looking for a place that does a great job pushing ML into high-impact production. I've done two internships. One was a late-stage startup with lots of prediction problems, but everyone just used regression. No process at the time to integrate serious real-time ML
- PhD careers at FAAMNG+NVIDIA...? I'm interested in knowing how easy or difficult it is to get a role where you publish at the top conferences at FAANG companies. (and other strong AI industrial labs like NVIDIA). Realistically I might go to grad school in a top 20-50 school in the US, and finish with say 100 citations and an avera
- Research labs vs applied science Hi there. I'm interested in research labs such as Google Research, and Microsoft Research. I think these are obviously among the most prestigious industry research labs, and I consider them equivalently good. Going down a little bit more applied, I see many other options, but I'm not sure how they c
- What are some backend math heavy career paths? So I got into the SWE world from mechanical engineering, doing computational mechanics. I now build software that’s used in HPC environments simulating various things. I love the work I do, it’s just really slow at DoE labs and the pay isn’t there. The skills I have are a lot of python and C++, plu
- How to become a Research Scientist after PhD I finished PhD in electrical engineering from an average university. My coursework and research papers belong to Machine Learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Statistics, and Signal processing. I do not have any background in tele-communication, network, electromagnetics, p
- Career path for applied scientist at Amazon Hello all, Im new grad (Masters grad) who got return offer from amazon AS offer and Meta SDE (both Junior). But i know that in my heart i wont be a REAL researcher like Metas FAIR or Googles Brain or deepminds people. Given that my major is math, i was just good at Leetcode and very weak on syste
- link Machine learning engineering and ML systems design resources master list Hi Fellow Blinders, I'm trying to make an ultimate thread of recommended ML/ML engineering resources. Contributions much appreciated. I'll add them to the OP. Looking for anything, from resources for learning machine learning theory to deep learning to the latest trends in ML engineering and system
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- vote ML PhD vs SWE job Tl;dr: I tried giving all the useful info about my situation so that advices can be meaningful. Comments are preferred to sheer votes! B.Eng. + 1yoe as SWE + MS in CS. About to start a SWE internship at FAANG. I'm evaluating if I want to start a PhD in theoretical ML (~4years) after the internshi
- ML/Applied Scientist Role will get commoditized out of existence! Do you agree? Seeking out fellow ML scientist bro/sis here on Blind. Having a mid-cliff crisis now. Punch line is that I think this role will be commoditized out of existence in at most 10 years. First, we need to get our definitions straight, because terminology varies. 1) Research Scientist (50% basic researc
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5