Difficulty of moving from SWE to MLE?
Dec 31, 2021
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How difficult is it for someone with a MSCS to get a MLE role if didn’t do the degree in ML and have no professional ML experience? I have around 3 YoE as a SWE, in NYC, and this is assuming I taught myself (online courses, YouTube, projects, etc) the required info listed on job listings.
Thinking of the rating as a combo of actually being qualified for the role, getting an interview, getting through the interview, overall competition/crowdedness, etc
Side question not for the poll, is a PhD really needed for the cool stuff in ML?
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Would you like to DM me? Have few questions regarding interview rounds and prerequisites.
I'm MLE at a startup. In general, I like it, but I got tired of the way ML is organized in my current company (we're in "magic" AutoML space). So I find, I'm much happier, when I don't need to tweak models for the customers again and again, but to work on implementation/engineering tasks.
I imagine though, that working a bigger company, in which ML is serving themselves, has it's own established pipelines and working ML models would be very different. I started considering switching my jobs for that.