Are any companies actually hiring Udacity Artificial Intelligence and DeepLearning Nanodegree grads?
No.
A top AI engineer at Uber started with Udacity, so...yaaaas
dont worry about nanodegrees, spend some time working on an interesting problem with machine learning and share it in the right circles online. get people to contribute to it via github, etc. That will work better for getting you a job than a digital certificate of credibility.
Thnxs for the tip
Lol