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Ask HN: Are all FAANG employees motivated only by promos (rather than vision)?

Been working a few years at a FAANG straight from college, and was surprised how everything that the teams do are geared towards performance reviews and getting promotions. Basically everyone is trying to launch something to show "impact" without much thought on whether that's actually the most pressing thing that the company/product area/user actually needs.Are there companies where people are...

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Ask HN: What motivated you to get into ML?

I've been 5 years in FAANG, "Jack of all trades, master of none" engineer with frontend/backed experience.Wanting to get deep into a field, ML seemed like the one with the most potential for positive impact on the world.I've been struggling with sticking to learning ML as a lot of projects seem to be some clarification (cat vs dogs, etc.) or a regression task (predict sales count, ..).What was...

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