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Laid off, looking for new venture (FAANG experience)

I was just told today that I'm being laid off from my startup as a cost cutting measure. In a way I’m happy because I needed a hard career reset. MSc in CS from Canadian uni. Canadian citizen and open to relocate to Cali. Interned at FAIR as a SWE a couple years back and other startups before that, total of 3 YoE. Background is in Computer Vision & AI. Got interviews coming up with Waymo and Wayve, would appreciate any tips and referrals for SWE/MLE positions (where engineering > research) Thanks in advance! #engineering #software #swe #job #referrals #tips TC: $0 now :()

Palo Alto Networks SIob Apr 23

What kind of ML experience? Do you understand how to create (or at least how to fine tune) LLMs?

Meta almadean OP Apr 24

I have experience in implementing models from papers from scratch all the way to fine-tuning on specific tasks/datasets, though mostly on CV.

AbbVie ugtwe Apr 24

This is what I hate the most now. Almost all the AI related jobs require you to have experience with LLM, and nothing else matters (Metallica :-))

Google weOA54 Apr 23

Can you go back to Meta? DM me if you would want to

Meta almadean OP Apr 24

Thanks! I am already in contact with my old manager to go back yes, though I’ll reach out anyways if you know of any specific roles?

Motional Wuuv28 Apr 26

I just went through the Wayve interview process. A few things that might help. - They're doing e2e ml, primarily with camera - They're primarily a London based company but do have an office in Mountain View and Vancouver - work life balance seems healthier, the recruiter took 2 holidays during the process - everyone I interviewed with was super nice and excited by the company. - TC wasn't amazing, base $210000 and rsu $50000 ( no bonus) - hybrid work 2-3 days Overall I took the job as they seem to be doing interesting work and I start next month.

Peloton nochange 7d

At what level is the offer and did you have to negotiate?

Motional adasguy 4d

Wuuv28, did you end up taking the offer, how do you compare it to Motional TC I'm looking at them as well ;)

Motional Wuuv28 4d

I took the offer, it was comparable maybe a little less if you account for cost of living in Mountain View. I'm currently in Pittsburgh.

Motional adasguy 3d

Congrats, they reached out and I declined last year as it required heavy traveling to UK With the news yesterday and current situation at Motional should have taken up the offer Will try rekindling the old talks, let's see