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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by fnbr on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:10AM (#35151805)
Yes, 1000%. Especially when it comes to AI. Meta has an excellent team of ML engineers, many of whom are in exceptionally high demand right now. If I were a ML engineer at Facebook, _especially_ if I was working remotely, I'd be sending out a ton of applications right now. I bet they end up getting an easier, more meaningful, higher paying job.

I'm an AI research engineer who was recently laid off and this was my experience.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by gat1 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:20AM (#35151955)
What's the difference between an ML engineer and an AI research engineer ?
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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by fnbr on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:50AM (#35152395)
ML engineers work on products, AI research engineers work for AI research labs.

Skillset is almost identical, biggest difference is having research experience.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by jonathankoren on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:51AM (#35152418)
The first ships products. The second is the code monkey to the statistician.
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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by tick_tock_tick on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:01PM (#35156771)
> I bet they end up getting an easier, more meaningful, higher paying job.

They won't.

> I'm an AI research engineer who was recently laid off and this was my experience.

But not from Facebook? They are very well compensated right now; they aren't just going to drop into a better paying role.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by fnbr on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:13PM (#35158766)
FAANGs aren’t anywhere near the high end of the ML job market currently.
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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by Nimitz14 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:21AM (#35164230)
Is this comment speaking from personal experience? Meta pays much more than any other FAANG. E.g. Know someone who's openai offer (2x Google) was matched by meta.
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