I'm getting interviewed for a position of a Research Engineer in DeepMind coming from an IC4 Software Engineer in Facebook London.
While this is a bump in the correct direction for my career, I'm worried about work/life balance in DeepMind: right now I normally work less than 8 hours a day, have 20 days where I'm allowed to work in my home country, and the entire London office is pretty chill (and has way better food).
What's work/life balance in DeepMind like? Is everyone an overarchieving tryhard working 12 hours a day 6 days a week, or do people normally work a reasonable amount of time?
TC: £145k/y. YOE: 4–6 depending on how you could.
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If you have no background then the best place to start is fucking around with sklearn and Jupyter notebooks. After you are comfortable with that then you can probably apply to one of the ML-heavy SWE teams in Facebook.
I didn't have enough experience in neural network outside feedforward ones, and that weighted against me. Knowledge is not enough for entering these companies.