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I think they normally would, but I’m pretty young (27) so they don’t assume I have that. The HR folks who set this up are typically checking boxes and don’t rea
by lettergram 7y ago
I think they normally would, but I’m pretty young (27) so they don’t assume I have that. The HR folks who set this up are typically checking boxes and don’t realize equivalencies.
My usual tactic is to mention the patents and send some of my work and they reconsider.
In either case, my general point was that the 5x salary bump is pretty much reserved for an artificially set subset of people.
- dbancajas 7y ago> sseveran 5 hours ago | favorite[-] [collapse root] If you are talking about the R&D tax credits there is nothing that says you have to have a PhD. We get a bunch of these every year and we only have one person with a PhD that is part of the research. How did you get 4 years of experience in ML at 27? care to share?
- chrisseaton 7y ago> How did you get 4 years of experience in ML at 27? care to share? Presumably they've been working in ML since they were 23? What's so crazy about that?
- lettergram 7y agoProbably technically it’s been longer, but I built neural networks in OpenCL in 2014 (22 years old). That was for a research project at university. In 2015, I started building ML models full-time at two large companies. First while I school, as a contractor, then joined full-time after school