change in career
Need your suggestion: I’m currently a SDE with full stack experience but planning to make a career change (ML/ Big Data) Whats the best learning path? May be coursera with certification or udacity/ Edx since i don’t have real time experience would these courses help? Or any other ways to learn to be more effective and get a job? thanks
Udacity is better than edx and coursera. I would use udacity to learn the fundamentals take ML, RL and CV and the necessary math courses. These are all pretty much the same thing tbh. Do a lot of Kaggle competitions, win them and recruiters will contact you. Or Finding the best job would be to first join a start up and learn gain experience developing a whole ML pipeline then try to move on to FANG.
I have few kaggle accomplishments, and I wrote that on my resume. Interviewed for Amazon, FB, Microsoft. No one cared to ask, even once. So I removed them from my resume. Maybe I had anecdotal experiences
Same experience. I have done kaggle projects, no one bothers. The only people who say/think kaggle helps are the ones who haven't done it.
I'm sure you can work on some projects at Expedia where you have to put ML models into production, or you can even get into maintaining and creating Hadoop or AWS data pipeline. As for courses, they really don't do anything in finding a job, or changing the path, but they surely will give you tons on knowledge on ML.