Re:The Machine Learning Job Market
by titanomachy on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:55PM
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FAANG staff in 5-6 years out of school is not impossible. I know a couple. They are significant outliers in terms of focus, dedication (i.e. hours worked), and raw intelligence. If I had to guess, I'd say 1 in 30 from the population of Google-level engineers.
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Re:The Machine Learning Job Market
by krat0sprakhar on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:33PM
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> They are significant outliers in terms of focus, dedication (i.e. hours worked), and raw intelligence.
As someone who has worked at FAANG for 5 years right out of school, getting to staff is less about raw intelligence and more about being lucky with working on projects that did not get canned and finding supportive managers. My friends much smarter than me have not had a good growth purely because they were unlucky with initial team assignment and PA / reorgs cancelling their projects.
Re:The Machine Learning Job Market
by titanomachy on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:11PM
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That is true, but one "young staff" I know was initially assigned to a dead-end project. She made it her life's mission to find something more interesting and promotable, and succeeded. But there's definitely luck involved.