Any insight on the teams working in rankin at Google Search, specifically those leveraging ML for relevance? As a new grad, is it possible to land on a team like this and pick up cutting-edge work, or are L3 relegated to the less interesting projects?
Search Ranking at Google is literally the oldest team. I wouldn't recommend it for a new grad. It's a fairly conservative team and one that prizes seniority.
What about relevance in other verticals like images, etc?
Other PAs are nice. YouTube, Photos, Geo (aka maps). Most parts of search are sclerotic although other verticals are better. Especially imagine search since they're trying to clone pinetrest