This is not specific to ML/AI roles. The same problem applies to anyone who wants to explore any of these domains - SRE, DataEng, Backend, Frontend.
Personally, I am a backend engineer who wants to get into ML Infra roles. My current plan is to do these online courses, and hopefully transfer internally to a team working in this area. Only after having real industry experience in this area, look for more opportunities elsewhere.
I am genuinely curious if anyone has better ideas for people in my situation.
The past few months have been stressful for most people in the tech industry owing to mass layoffs everywhere. Luckily, I survived the layoffs at my company. But I was very anxious during the period it was announced and it affected my mental health quite a bit.However, on talking to a few other engineers at my company, I realized not everyone was as stressed. They are confident in their skills...
>> Becoming rich and famous is mostly a matter of luck.
I am not sure if I agree with this completely.
I recently watched a Netflix movie "Look both ways" with my wife. The movie shows parallel timelines in which the protagonist despite facing different scenarios ends up with a very similar fate in the end. That movie got me thinking if our life's trajectory is based on a few defining moments, or if it is more about the small decisions we make everyday.
For example, if Amazon/Meta didn't work out for Bezos/Mark, where do you think they would end up. My guess is they would still be running some big successful companies, as founders or CEOs or VPs.
This review crushed me. It destroyed my confidence in my programming abilities. To be fair, I had made some mistakes during my first year at Amazon - had fewer commits and SLOC compared to my teammates. Being on a work visa meant I could not quit immediately. I had to endure working there for almost a year before I got a new job.
I took me quite some time to gain back my confidence. To this day, my time at Amazon makes me dread performance reviews.