Hi, recent MSc grad in computational linguistics having a tough time. My program has a great job board where alums offer referrals, but there just haven't been many listings lately. I've had just 1 interview with a startup and the pay was 125K-250K. I made it three rounds before getting rejected. The recruiter made it clear that I'd be on the lower end since it would be my first real job in the field and the fact that my background is mostly education (my other work experience is quite unrelated; I took a part-time job in the healthcare field while working on my degree). I would have been extremely happy with 125K. The director of my grad program shared salary stats from about 180 alums who provided their information and the mean salary is about 98K, so the startup offered very competitive pay. LinkedIn seems to keep pushing data analyst/science roles (maybe because of the Python and machine learning?), but I'm open to pretty much anything. I just want to get my foot in the door somewhere, but I'd ideally like to make at least 75K. From browsing LinkedIn, it seems a lot of comp ling people have done contract/temp positions at Facebook/Meta or Google and eventually transition into full time employees. Many alums from my program seem to end up at Amazon and for the most part, they seem to stay there for quite some time. One of the most recent job board postings was for an AWS data scientist (apparently a MSc in comp ling was an acceptable degree type even though I'd never guess from the job title), but the role was based in Seattle and I'd want to stay local to Los Angeles if the role isn't remote. I've applied to maybe 200 places from Best Buy to Walmart to ibotta to Oracle to Nordstrom, basically whatever LinkedIn recommends and if I don't get auto-rejected (Best Buy did so in about 7 hours), I just never seem to hear anything. Any help would be so appreciated. #referral #meta #amazon
Thank you, I will check out your link. I remember a recruiter from the Mountain View office once emailed the graduate director asking for applicants to their research scientist audio/speech /nlp position, so I'll see if anything like that might be open.
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