Snap vs Pinterest ML platform

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Nov 14, 2020 20 Comments

Got offers from both for new grad. I want to go into ML platform. Which place is better?

Heard Pinterest ML platform is regarded highly and comparable to Facebook FBLearner, Google TFX, Twitter Cortex, and Uber Michelangelo.

Have not heard a lot about ML platform at Snap.

Would love to hear about thoughts from people at Snap and Pin.

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  • I’m on the team - if you’re considering, join us. We’re competent, fast paced and we get things done. The team is in the middle of a long term roadmap with a strategic migration happening at the end of which we expect to unlock dev velocity.

    To put it mildly, we are very very early and we need a lot of work put into the systems and there should be a number of opportunities for impact. If you’d like, please DM me and we can connect on the phone to discuss.

    Congratulations on the offer! We will love to have you!
    Nov 16, 2020 5
  • I'm on an team that uses lots of ML Platform things, and from my interactions with them (obviously not an internal view, so don't know if internally people like the team), they seem quite competent (I've worked closely with a couple people on the team). I would say a fully unified ML platform is still sort of a work in progress, so I expect there would be room for growth. Can't comment on snap, but probably they have interesting problems too, although perhaps a somewhat different domain (vision vs more general recommendations)
    Nov 14, 2020 0
  • Snap / Eng
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    If it’s from Ads or AR/VR, then Snap, else Pinterest
    Nov 17, 2020 4
    • Snap / Eng
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      Also to be honest, working on ads side is much more exciting than ML infra. I was at FBLeaner and talked to lots of colleagues who was from Uber Michelangelo. ML infra oncall and fixing issues from product client ain’t fun.
      Nov 17, 2020
    • Snap
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      +1 to interesting and challenging ML on Ads team at Snap
      Nov 17, 2020
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    thruhiker
    Snap lens is a very interesting ML platform. It may be the most advanced ML platform in computer vision.
    Nov 14, 2020 0
  • There is a lot of interesting work going on in Pinterest ML teams. Having said that I assume Snap should also have a lot of good work to do. But choose 📌 lol
    Nov 14, 2020 0