Going through team match at Google. Would love to hear about culture, growth, politics (or lack thereof) for the following teams. I'll be a L5 SWE working on ML. - Shopping search quality - Brand Safety@YouTube - Google Assistant For the TC or GTFO crowd - don't know TC yet
YOE (total and ML specifically)?
10 years, all in ML but in quant finance. Some of the experience will get lost in translation to ads/video. Would also love your thoughts on ML teams at FB, or G vs FB for ML. Have an offer from FB too.
Lots of ML teams in Fb, mostly in ranking. Yeah definitely not at google’s level, but we move fast.
Simple linear regression is too naive to be competitive any more. Lots of work on non-standard regularization and other ways to reduce VC dimension of the model for better generalization with large number of features. Also shallow neural nets, SVMs, RF, GBTS are pretty common.
My motivation is to do something more tangible than just making money. Like working on a product that millions of people use (naive?). And getting better at deep learning, which I think will change the world in the next decade. Most people making the opposite move are optimizing for TC. Comp isn't a large factor in my utility function anymore.
Go for the manager that fits you best.
Another dimension is ML domain. Video I assume is YT, speech might be Assistant (or could be something else) and text processing might be shopping search quality. If you have interest in RNN v. CNN v. GAN, might be good to ask about architectures and how applicable to other domains.
Great point. I was excited about video for that - seems like there would be more low hanging fruit there because people haven't been working on ML for video for too long. Compared to CTR prediction for shopping. Btw, I like your handle 😀
Op what did you choose and why?
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