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Re:What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:16AM (#23626214)
>As someone who does ML for a living this hits. When switching companies in 2019 for the first time I had a hard time despite having 10+ years experience. Linkedin maxed out saying over 200 people had applied to every job I was looking at.

sure you're not just getting old? My experience is that once I got over 10+ years in experience in development people generally didn't want to hire me full-time, only consulting.

>Hopefully the industry matures. I've bumped into data scientists who don't know how to do feature engineering as well as ones who can't grok ML. It makes the whole industry look bad

This is what happens when a tech industry matures! Before it's mature and lucrative only the dedicated are into it, once it has matured there are layers of skillfulness and somewhere at the bottom the totally unskilled trying to get something.

I suppose you will be receiving an ML take home project for your next job shift.

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Re:What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find by proverbialbunny on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:21PM (#23632626)
>sure you're not just getting old? My experience is that once I got over 10+ years in experience in development people generally didn't want to hire me full-time, only consulting.

I don't know. I don't know how to break into consulting but I want to do it.

I've been through three IPOs in the last 11 years, and we didn't really hire consultants (except people out in the field to collect data sometimes, but that was contract employees), so I'm a bit out of the loop. I did everything wearing multiple hats, even going so far as to productionizing models I've made onto embedded, so there has been little reason to hire outside help.

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Re:What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find by proverbialbunny on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:28PM (#23634081)
I must have been half way awake. Not three IPOs. I went through one of those. I went through three acquisitions.
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