Currently LMTS in machine learning except that my team sucks. Been two years and barely any challenging work. It's kept me out of the whole DL revolution. My manager just wants stuff on the v2mom done and wants things running in prod. He is more than happy with me implementing moving averages with a threshold for anomaly detection than even trying to do anything more sophisticated. No scope for refreshers, cliff nearing. I joined through an acquisition but since I waw two years into sfdc, barely any challenging work. TC is 450k (because of stock appreciation and we pay acquisition hires more) the refreshers are not going to be as high. Offer from glaxosmithcline - 350k (pay cut). Principal research scientist/ director level. (I did do research on my own time by working weekends as nights while at Salesforce to have a publication record) Work involves publication as well. It's an ML research group and I'll be tech lead on couple of projects. I feel it's a no brainer and I should run there. What's the blind verdict?
Meh this is a career change that may benefit you in the future and make Research Scientist roles easier for you. You don't find your current work interesting, and are doing research anyways - I think you'll like the new positions. And at 350k it's not like you'll be hurting. I think you should do it.
I'm leaning towards this. Also I already have a GC so no worries there.
What will you gain in experience by going to GSK
Nice to hear as a data scientist I’m not the only one who is stuck doing moving average procedures for anomaly detection.
Do not lower your TC. Especially 100k pay cut. Keep looking.
I'm worried after the cliff my bargaining power will be even lower