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Being on the inside, these companies are really not innovating. Just optimizing existing platforms
by fdgsdfogijq 4y ago
Being on the inside, these companies are really not innovating. Just optimizing existing platforms
- beebmam 4y agoI agree. But in my opinion, that's the perfect kind of company to start your software engineer career in.
- 01100011 4y agoI'm not getting into that debate, but I'll say that the most important thing for a new engineer isn't being at an innovative company. It's just learning the ropes, making your first mistakes, fixing them, learning team skills, etc. Sure, you want to avoid the bureaucratic nightmares like the defense industry, but I think many SW shops will teach you a lot vs school.
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoI bet you alot of the engineers at openAI doing impactful work are just a few years out of school, if that. Big tech is filled with bureaucrats
- 01100011 4y agoAren't a lot of those projects built on top of FANG outputs? I.e. pytorch, tensorflow, CUDA, AWS, etc?
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoSure, but as a junior engineer on one of those teams, some senior engineer thats been there a decade will shoulder you out of the best learning opportunities. Also, that stuff was invented more than a decade ago in most cases. Very different companies back then
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