Does Amazon Machine Learning team only hire people who have completed PhD ? I have completed my undergraduate and have two years of experience in Machine Learning. Any advice to join Amazon ML team in India ?
In my opinion work as SDE in an ML org you will become 2nd citizen. Sometimes you feel you either can not determine the core algo or not full leverage your advantage. I would avoid joining such org as SDE.
Totally second this. I’m an SDE in an ML org and the experience sucks. I have a very solid ML background but still never get taken seriously just because of my job title. It’s really frustrating.
Let me add more: if you got a chance to work on ML platforms that is good enough. But if you join a feature team as SDE. Good luck, you only work on collecting data, help debug, writing testing framework, help scientists implement(not invent) things, reimplement their new ideas, setting up environments, set up deployment pipeline. You are just a support engineer or SDET actually.
My team has 4 PhDs, two persons with bachelors and one bootcamp graduate. Not sure about the other 5 persons degree. But the bootcamp guy is as good as the PhD and is probably more respected.
Which bootcamp?
Curious as to which boot camp as well.
AS seems to require PhD. SDE on ML teams absolutely does not.
Sorry, what's AS?
Applied Scientist
I have been going to MS in DS and have been trying to get an internship. No CS background, accounting only, nobody cares about your degree. All they want is knowledge and experience. I will be done w degree next yr and feels impossible to get a job so far
No, they do hire non phd people with experience. It’s actually not that tough, the hiring bar isn’t that high.
Are you referring to India or US?
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I worked at Amazon in the ML space for a while and interviewed candidates (SDEs and Applied Scientists). Having a PhD or not, isn’t what interviewers look for, its the knowledge and hands on experience that is important. So you know how much knowledge you have and experience, if you feel it’s good then go ahead and apply. If you think you want to still learn, you may join a ML team as SDE and learn and grow there as well.