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The below writing is just my opinion ,anecdotal and sour grapes. Have been interested in this stuff for years. Did my CS project with NN just before everyone s

The below writing is just my opinion ,anecdotal and sour grapes. Have been interested in this stuff for years. Did my CS project with NN just before everyone started using GPU's ,and a short DS course more recently. Seeing all the marketing people move into space with their prompt cheat sheets on LinkedIn while many tech people are ,ironically, locked out by blackbox recruitment algorithms is maddening.(This particular problem goes far beyond tech jobs though). Some also seem to be mixing up DS and DE roles a bit, one of the few times I got an interview I had end it and apologize as what they were looking for was a data engineer. Another was listed as a machine learning role ,when I got the offer it was travelling tech support and paid less. With the promise of undefined ML work later. Some companies are just tacking irrelevant ML and AI stuff onto job descriptions. Also so many live coding tests , and that one weird recruiter asking about "skeletons in closets"

rg111 3y ago
> I got an interview I had end it and apologize as what they were looking for was a data engineer. 100% happened to me once. Wasted hours of my time. > Some companies are just tacking irrelevant ML and AI stuff onto job descriptions. Some of them do this deliberately. I have seen this practice in companies targeting junior roles and fresh out of college grads. They hire them with shit pay and promise them ML experience, and then make them do non ML stuff.
- lawlessone 3y ago
  Luckily in my case it was very short. The first tech question they asked me was about the how to move all a companies data from old gov systems to a data lake. We both got a quick lesson really. All polite. The second bait and switch example though went on a lot longer. I had an off feeling about it from the first call. One guy on call was stifling a laugh the whole time. They made sure to emphasize they we're offering me a lot of experience, doing me favor essentially. When they gave me the offer they also requested I send them over a professional photograph of myself. Maybe that's normal in some countries but to me it was the red flag that finally made me notice all the other red flags.
VirusNewbie 3y ago
I had the opposite happen at a FAANG company. Did multiple rounds of coding and data architecture interviews only for the final round to be an ML round with me being quite surprised and having to tell them "well, i'll do my best, but I actually have...0 experience with AI/ML/DL"...

rg111 3y ago

> I got an interview I had end it and apologize as what they were looking for was a data engineer. 100% happened to me once. Wasted hours of my time. > Some companies are just tacking irrelevant ML and AI stuff onto job descriptions. Some of them do this deliberately. I have seen this practice in companies targeting junior roles and fresh out of college grads. They hire them with shit pay and promise them ML experience, and then make them do non ML stuff.

lawlessone 3y ago
Luckily in my case it was very short. The first tech question they asked me was about the how to move all a companies data from old gov systems to a data lake. We both got a quick lesson really. All polite. The second bait and switch example though went on a lot longer. I had an off feeling about it from the first call. One guy on call was stifling a laugh the whole time. They made sure to emphasize they we're offering me a lot of experience, doing me favor essentially. When they gave me the offer they also requested I send them over a professional photograph of myself. Maybe that's normal in some countries but to me it was the red flag that finally made me notice all the other red flags.

VirusNewbie 3y ago

I had the opposite happen at a FAANG company. Did multiple rounds of coding and data architecture interviews only for the final round to be an ML round with me being quite surprised and having to tell them "well, i'll do my best, but I actually have...0 experience with AI/ML/DL"...