I am a machine learning engineer with 3 yoe at microsoft, 1 yoe at cvs pharmacy, now got offer to cisco as staff mle. is the company brand of cvs pharmacy hurting my application for machine learning engineer positions at Netflix and adobe? should I wait to get cisco staff mle on my resume experience before applying to more places. not sure if I was turned down from better companies (like Netflix and adobe and apple) for machine learning engineer because cvs pharmacy is a non tech company and people doubt whether the large language model work I am doing at cvs is legit because cvs is a non tech company. #tech #faang #machinelearning #machinelearningengineer #google #meta #apple #netflix #adobe
I think it matters a bit depending on the interviewer. But if you got interviews from them but just didn’t pass the interview, you should focus on improving your interview performance.
what if they give you feedback saying you did well but they went with someone else
It may be the deciding factor or not. There’s nothing you can really do about that except keep getting better in interviews and do better next time. You can also tell them you got an offer from Cisco which can help.
If you went from Microsoft to CVS, yes, that is hurting you.
yes I went from microsoft to cvs and that hurt. even though it was for more money
it doesnt matter, youve successfully laundered your brand with msft, congrats
thanks for the input!