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100% the person building and learning as they go A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
100% the person building and learning as they go
A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape
- polygamous_bat 3y ago> A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape This is how you get a four-week transition from "I can fix twitter search in an internship!" to "twitter search is unfixable." Ideally, a PhD teaches you to bust your behind doing a deep dive on a seemingly unsolvable problem for three-five years. If only we could recalibrate ourselves to stop the search for easy money and remind ourselves that some problems are just genuinely hard.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI mean I’m talking generally not about him specifically The best senior engineers on the planet have a BS and 30 years experience
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- colesantiago 3y agoUnfortunately 'senior engineers' who have 30+ years of experience in the valley and other places are past their prime in SV by most top tech companies as engineers. They are expected to be in management roles.