FAANGMULA Company for Research : PhD grad

Applied Material / Other
Aconcangua

Go to company page Applied Material Other

Aconcangua
Mar 14 26 Comments

Which of the top tech companies is the best for a Machine Learning / AI researcher (recent PhD grad)

Looking for roles that entails paper publications/patents etc.

I have am expecting an offer from Amazon for an AS role.

Current TC : 125 K

34 PARTICIPANTS SELECT ONLY ONE ANSWER
VOTE VIEW RESULT

comments

Want to comment? LOG IN or SIGN UP
TOP 26 Comments
  • You got TPM first right ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
    Mar 14 8
  • Amazon
    AndyBezo

    Go to company page Amazon

    AndyBezo
    Former Amazon AS here. Itโ€™s one of the best roles for machine learning folks. Youโ€™ll have talented colleagues and most of the problem statements are interesting. Although you check the problem statement with the HR. Even if you join and donโ€™t find the work interesting, you can change teams internally very easily.

    Also, the teams I was in didnโ€™t have sprints or on call for ML problems. So you could take your time researching and developing solutions.

    For META, go if you get FAIR. Because other roles can be engineering heave as well. Folks at Meta might be able to guide you better on this.

    For Google as well, a few ML roles are engineers heavy. I myself had an offer for software engineer- machine learning, and chose Amazon AS over it.
    Mar 14 7
    • Amazon
      AndyBezo

      Go to company page Amazon

      AndyBezo
      There is no problem in publishing as long as the work you do is also solving a problem at hand.

      You wonโ€™t spend months just working on some architecture to find some novelty and publish. Publishing is not the main aim but you are welcome and even encouraged to publish.
      Mar 14
    • New
      denshSai2

      New

      denshSai2
      They say so, but in reality it is impossible to publish. At least a manager told me, a professor was working there, and he had a hard time publishing even just one paper for that year, many approvals needed and ip concern. The koi is customer driven not publication driven as well. Anyway I never seen a paper from Amazon in my field (CV) but lots of fair and google research
      Mar 14
  • Amazon
    sheep123

    Go to company page Amazon

    sheep123
    Amazon AS is very team dependent. I would definitely ask you to talk to the team's AS members before you join to gauge what their average day entails. Also, AS at Amazon is neither core research nor MLE. So for future job opportunities, you will either have a small pool of options (not a lot of companies offering AS-like option) or go towards MLE which will require you to have experience in engineering too.
    Mar 14 7
    • Amazon
      AndyBezo

      Go to company page Amazon

      AndyBezo
      @sheep123, thereโ€™s a lot of good AS openings internally and you should definitely look out. If you are spending significant time on SQL, your team needs to hire a BIE.
      Mar 14
    • Amazon
      sheep123

      Go to company page Amazon

      sheep123
      Not disagreeing. I have had both kind of experiences: model building for novel business problems and also data analysis for months at end. I think op will need to have his wits to know when to GTFO and when to stay.
      Mar 14
  • Microsoft / R&D
    vmse30

    Go to company page Microsoft R&D

    vmse30
    MSR, Brain, FAIR is where you want to be. Pick a job where the description explicitly states that papers and academic impact is needed.
    Mar 14 0