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by apohn 5y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that every couple of years, an internal or external shift is going to change what you think is important and what's not worth the effort. Maybe today you want to focus your time on learning different th
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>Every 7 years or so you will have some major upheaval in your routine, so you aren't stuck with the choices you make right now. At least for me, the big realization is that a lot of the "important" decisions made in the p
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>And when it is all over, nobody wishes they had spent more time working. This is true. But I think it's also important for people to realize this on their own based on experiences in their own life, not just in theory. Sometimes th
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by apohn 5y ago
One question to ask yourself is what you want to do after the PhD. Do you want to go into Academia as Professor/ML Researcher? Or do you want to work for a big company doing ML Research? If it's a big company, are are you think
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>If you were to get hit by a bus after a few years, which path would give you more satisfaction having spent the last few years of your life pursuing? One of the reasons I have a aversion to this question is that it's usually follow
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by apohn 5y ago
One of the ways I try to think about is asking myself if I feel like my job is bullshit. I currently work for an extremely large multi-national company on a really mundane sounding use case with a pretty vanilla Data stack. What we build h
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If you are traveling internationally, don't forget about the warranty. Some laptop manufacturers will only service your laptop in the country of purchase. Or they'll claim you have international service, but the service is so ba
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by apohn 5y ago
In my last job I used to work with a major vendor (in industrial manufacturing) who provided a Cloud+Edge Integration solution for factories. The Edge portion was a Industrial PC with a software layer that basically allowed you to deploy s
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>My experience of PhD is more mundane. I didn't discover anything particularly meaningful, or hard, or even useful. Agreed. I feel the same about my PhD. I did write a book that I could use to put myself to sleep though :)
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>I do have _some_ competitive advantage from being a tourist here. You are actually at a disadvantage being in the US. The H1-B visa process has a very frustrating quirk. Most years, companies apply for H1-Bs in March/April. But t
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There's no way a Bootcamp grad with no degree and no experience got an H1-B visa. Companies have no flexibility with the legal requirements for visa. Even if a company said they would hire every single person from a bootcamp, they ca
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I'm sorry the recruiters lied to you. The H1-B and Green Card process is terrible enough without people BSing you about the reality of getting the visa in the first place.
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I may come off as an a-hole, but are you trolling in this thread? In all your time applying for jobs, did you really not take 30 seconds to google "Is a degree required for H1-B" or "H1-B visa requirements." A 4 year ba
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by apohn 5y ago
I just wanted to let you know I found this comment very insightful. I've never really thought about all tiny ways feeling responsible for stuff in a company can creep into your mind and fester there without you realizing it. It'
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by apohn 5y ago
Am I allowed to have a contrarian opinion :) I went through the first version of FastAI (when it was Keras, torch?/tensorflow?) and forgot most of it because never did anything with Deep Learning. Then I did the FastAI V1 course again
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Just FYI, Lenovo is having a terrible time fulfilling orders. Months of delays with a complete lack of transparency around actual ship times. Not to mention just a comical process around rejected payments and other issues. I ordered a Thi
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One thing to remember is that a lot of people who start out coding end up somewhere else in a Tech company. I've worked with a lot of people with Engineering and CS degrees who worked as developers writing code for 2-3 years and didn&#
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Thanks! I think with all the well known tech behemoths (50K+ employees), it's easy to lose perspective and assume that a company like Databricks (2K+ employees) or Stripe (4K+ employees) is a medium sized company in comparison. I app
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by apohn 5y ago
>This is why I prefer to work with and for medium sized companies Out of curiosity, how do you define a medium sized company? How many people, how much revenue, etc? The way people define this varies widely, so just trying to understan
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>There is something self-defeating about large tech companies. It's all large companies. They think they are too big and entrenched to fail. I've worked for 2 large non-tech companies where managers and leaders loved to say &q
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I was in a similar situation at one point. Baby was already born at that point, but the VP of my org changed and basically everybody they brought on (including a new manager for my team) were not people I could work well with. My old mana
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This gave me a good laugh with the Hulk reference. What you said is sad but true.
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One thing to remember is that being busy is not equal to learning or moving a career forward. Lots of tech and data science jobs are people doing basically the same thing everyday. Or worse, you are forced to work on half-baked stuff you
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I've been in different Data Science roles. For most of them my output was code and code going to production (which meant different things in different places). For one of my jobs my output was mostly PowerPoint and I left that job qu
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by apohn 5y ago
At my last job I worked for a large software company that offered a PaaS that ran on AWS/Azure public cloud or on-prem OpenShift/K8s. The lowest price for the PaaS on AWS for $5k/year. The on-prem minimum was $1M/year a
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>My biggest annoyance is with the company General Motors who requires your entire social security number to be interviewed contract. When did you experience this? Was it recent? I've interviewed for multiple jobs at GM over the ye
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I'm not sure if this will help, but there are a lot of ex software developers who move into different roles at software companies. Support, Customer Success, PreSales, PostSales, People Management, Project and Program Management, Tech
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>Short-term gain often comes at long-term pain. One of the ways I've tried to used in the past is to put down some concrete losses that will come from bad decisions. It just has a be a reasonable guesstimate. Either a dollar amoun
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>All the big failures I've seen in consulting come from having middleman between the guy building and the guy talking to the client. I've worked in different sized consulting organizations. The bigger the consulting project, t
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>All of them were on combinatorics/algorithms I have a PhD. I have had titles like "Principal Data Scientist","Senior Manager, Data Science" etc. Most of my colleagues think I am good at what I do. I would abs

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