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Out of curiosity, how about hiring masters or bachelors that have substantial projects, but might not qualify as research? It's personal interest, I don't have
by Joof 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how about hiring masters or bachelors that have substantial projects, but might not qualify as research?
It's personal interest, I don't have a degree at all yet, but I understand convolutional neural networks fairly well. Stanford has a good number of open classes on such subjects.
Otherwise, you probably have to give them something they can't get at Google; autonomy, environment, time off, whatever.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoOtherwise, you probably have to give them something they can't get at Google; autonomy, environment, time off, whatever. Not to harp on what we do too much, but that's all part of what we offer. Remote, minimum vacation (meaning we set a mandatory 10 day minimum but no higher bound on vacation day), equity grants (not options) etc... to make up for not having 400k salaries. As I mentioned elsewhere though, with most people money is what tips it over, but not they key thing. It's access to data that is important - it's why LeCun went to Facebook and Ng to Baidu. That's not something you can get as a startup without a product at massive scale already (though we have some staggeringly large proprietary vision data).
- Joof 10y agoI guessed, but didn't mention it since it seemed somewhat unlikely that you would have more or better data than Facebook/Google/Etc.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoRight, nobody does. That's why it's such a challenge.
- Joof 10y agoSince it's PhDs you're after, maybe you could offer something along the lines of a small lab that they can pursue their own projects in for 1-2 days a week and establish that you encourage them to publish research.