I was trying to transfer as an engineer to another engineering position with the possibility of growth. These were not pure research positions, but positions wi

I was trying to transfer as an engineer to another engineering position with the possibility of growth. These were not pure research positions, but positions with a fair amount of scaffolding making internal tools or productionizing a system alongside a team of existing experts, and so I thought my good performance being an engineer was going to let me move to a place where I could do more or less what I had already been doing, while learning and having room for growth. I had no illusions about being competitive for the actual machine learning _research_, having only taken online classes and done a side project. But there is a lot of schlep in managing data and then getting a model into production I knew I could do because I had done very very similar things successfully. I'm not saying the people they picked over me are worse though, I'm just sad they couldn't have picked us both :D