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What's the fastest way to jump this ladder. Swe at Google, cross train yourself on LLM in 20% time and at home, internal transfer, then get competing offers?
by nick222226 3y ago
What's the fastest way to jump this ladder. Swe at Google, cross train yourself on LLM in 20% time and at home, internal transfer, then get competing offers?
- letitgo12345 3y agoPublish high impact papers or develop a social circle of influential folks and impress them
- woeirua 3y agoMost of these people presumably have PhDs from top tier universities. So... don't think you'd be able to jump aboard this train without going back to school for a bit.
- p1esk 3y agoMost of these people are the best in the world at what they do. Like literally, the best out of tens of thousands of other smart people doing the same thing. If you think that you will become the worlds foremost expert in something if you "go back to school for a bit", then I don't know, maybe you should just go for it.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoPublish a 10000 citation paper at NeurIPS.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoBe born in 1980. Have reasonably well-off parents. Spend your childhood learning math and computers. Travel a little and learn a bit about the world. Study hard and do your homework. Get in to a top university and work on exactly the right problems. Get a job at google some time between 2003 and 2009. Spend at least a decade solving hard problems there, making good visible progress. Now wait to rake in the sweet sweet offers.
- p1esk 3y agoSpend at least a decade solving hard problems That's the hard part. If you can do that you absolutely deserve all the sweet offers coming your way.
- machdiamonds 3y agoAlso, be born with an extremely IQ.