Watching layoffs at Uber/Lyft/Airbnb/etc, most of RIFs are from either DS or ML infra teams.
Looks like it is not resistant to recession.
Thoughts?
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The companies laying off ML teams may have achieved a certain point when the ML infra is good enough to generalize over most problems and allow the company to print money for decades.
Theoretically, you can imagine that Google could transfer 95% of all ML employees working on Ads, without critical damage.
Another possibility, some ML teams (besides infra), applied research ones, work on long term features. This is definitely "nice to have", because not all companies need this kind of innovation. This is true especially when they have a working product and an unclear vision, focusing on survival.