Leave job for a PhD

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Qiunten

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Qiunten
Nov 29, 2021 3 Comments

I am an L4 MLE with 7 years of work ex. My work is boring as hell and there is barely any ML. I want to move into a research scientist role.

My original plan was to stay at google for another year and apply for a PhD. But I am thinking switching to either Amazon or Microsoft would be a better idea. I have a couple of question:

1. Is your pre PhD experience not counted afterwards? Would I have to join as an L4 again?

2. How likely is it for me to get into a research org internally? I have research experience and would have a couple of publications in the next 6 months through external collaboration

Blind tax
TC: 70 LPA

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  • Mad Street Den
    mad45

    Mad Street Den

    mad45
    If you don’t mind me asking a few questions…
    Is SWE ML role in Google India not good ?
    Can you give some idea about the team and product you are working on?
    Why do you feel it’s boring? Any particular pain points?
    Dec 1, 2021 1
    • Google
      Qiunten

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      Qiunten
      OP
      The role is not so great. No mentors in my org. People don’t remotely understand how ML works. Tired of managers making tall promises of Making thing AI enabled in problems that are not something ML can solve.
      The scope is also very limited due to too much middle management. You have to fight a lot for projects.
      I have been forced into backend work multiple times.
      Can’t tell you about the projects but they are except that ML work has been mainly force fitting models.
      I used to work on real ML models in my earlier role. There is barely any ML work in my team. And from what I have heard from other ML engineers it just involves making a lot of data pipelines and tfx services with predicting models.
      Dec 1, 2021
  • Grab
    econnerd

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    econnerd
    Apply anyway and see what you get. After you get a couple of spots, talk to your seniors and understand if the research appeals to me. Thats what i'm doing. DS/MLE has a cap w/o phd at top places. I'd trade long run tc for interesting work easily
    Dec 20, 2021 0