> Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must. Nope, personally know a lot of people who work in Machine Learning roles at the big 5 companies witho

> Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must. Nope, personally know a lot of people who work in Machine Learning roles at the big 5 companies without a PhD. Although specifically they did not have any of these courses on their resume. They did however have various ML projects which these courses can lead to.