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I have been offered an L4 Software Engineer role in Google Research, under their Google Brain group. This is purely a Software Engineering role, with little to no research expectations. While this is an exemplary group for research, I am wondering how exciting it is from a software engineering point of view. My particular questions are towards the scale of engineering : - Do you feel the customer base is big enough? From what I understand the primary users of the platforms I would be building are fellow researchers and occasional contributions to systems like Tensorflow. - Longevity of the products : is most day-to-day contribution on large systems which get used for several years, or is there significant short term coding? I see a lot of mini-repositories over at google-research's github hence this question. #google #googleresearch #googlebrain
Wow, trust me, it will be brilliant from an engineering perspective as well. Brain partners with many other companies as well so your customer base is much larger. Lot of the code may not be open source. Work will be challenging and rewarding. Bonus/pay/refreshers will also be top notch.
☝️it will also be probably the single best thing you can put on your resume with respect to your market value
Thanks @ov3hyg, this is useful. Hadn't thought about the partnerships with other companies. @foony - for sure it's an amazing opportunity. Just don't want to be a side character in a great movie if you know what I mean
Yep. It’s an awesome opportunity.
Yes. Congrats, now tell me how did you do it.
Google research is a good place where you have the flexibility to work on various research topics or collaborate with any product teams inside Google. The promotion velocity should be above the company average. Plus you may be able to get 1+ level up with google brain on your resume.
OP, please describe your ML exposure level! MS, PhD?
I have Bachelor's with 4 years industry ML experience. It's a software engineering role, doesn't come with very high expectations on ML side.
Are you doing ml infra type work?
Op, was your recruiter in brain? Did you express interest? How did this role come?
I’d take that in a fucking heartbeat lol
Not going to say no to Google, just wondering if I should continue team matching