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As an MLE how are you navigating your career right now? AI Labs want researchers to work on the modelling part. The rest is more infra style software engineering.I feel that the rest of the current set of applications is either being replaced with calling LLM APIs or is so specialized that generalist MLEs aren't chosen anyway.RecSys is a standout for me. Mostly being done by the largest...
I broke my rule not to bother with a take home and I regret it. Spent about 6 hours on it and the company decided to give me no feedback but a standard rejection email.As usual, the companies who expect it have no real idea who they want to hire and the take home was ambiguous and poorly structured. There was no clear criteria for success and they said it was 'open'.All that means is they don't...
I currently manage a ML team in a startup. Been doing it for about 2 years now. Due to a number of changes including required relocation, I can't and won't stay. Let's say I get an offer as a Principal MLE at a much larger/better company (think Salesforce, Workday etc.), with bigger scale opportunity.If I make this transition, is it realistic or even possible to make it back into a management...
Is it inability to get interviews? Inability to pass them?Is it after a certain time?If it's happened to you already what was the threshold?
I don't get it. Why can't we move past this world- where Job Descriptions aren't REALLY what the hiring manager wants - where Resumes don't REALLY represent your skills - where we can't seem to give candidates feedback on their gaps - where we can't seem to match talent to jobs they're qualified forLinkedIn didn't really solve it. We're still using terrible interviewing platforms. This is a...
I'm asking this from two angles:- What areas are current models and current approaches not sufficient?- Is there any chance that the job market for these areas will exist if one chooses to specialize in Comp. Vision?
Do you see a point in sticking it out in the tech industry? If so, what is your role/career trajectory?
I'm a ML Engineer and currently a ML Manager at a startup, but don't really get the opportunity to do a lot of work on a high-scale recommender system or search system.I want to really flex that muscle and build a strong portfolio to break into a solid opportunity for recsys.Is my only option at this point heading back to school to do an advanced degree/research to break in?
Because humanoids aren't a great form factor for robotics.
Robot vacuums, washing machines, dishwashers, "self" driving cars...these are all consumer robotics and are quite popular.
Question as title.We are in 2025. Has every software opportunity for a business been addressed?Basically, which industries that would benefit from software and automation, are yet to be realized?If so, why is this the case? Is it regulatory? Or something else?
My profile. Mid-30s, manager of ML team at a Saas startup.Academic background: ee degree + msc in data scienceProfessional background: over a decade in financial space and tech doing software and MLI just have lost interest in this whole thing and any motivation to keep going.Thinking of pursuing something like industrial automation.Currently married with kids and living in the US on a visa,...
This industry is going to shrink. And that's ok. We had our time. I wish it was longer and I wish I made more, but I don't think I ever saw myself here forever.
Kudos to those who made a whole career off of this.
I'm in my mid 30s with a wife and kid and I'm mostly hoping I can complete my immigration to the US before my time in this career ends.
Then, I might pursue starting a business or going back to school with the savings and hopefully my wife can be employed at the time in her completely unrelated field and cover us until I can figure out what to do next.
I'm not sad about this. I am happy I have tried to live frugally enough to never buy my own hype or believe that my salary is sustainable forever.
A part of it for me is that I never really loved building software. I might have ADHD and that might be a big factor, but honestly it was never what excited me.
The biggest fallacy I see a lot of people buying into is that LLMs being good enough to replace software developers means they're AGI and the world has other problems. I never quite bought that. I think software developers think too highly of themselves.
But they're also not technically wrong. Ya, a LLM can basically replace a family doctor and most internal medicine physicians. But the path to that happening is long and arduous due to how society has setup medics. Software devs never fought hard enough for their profession to be protected. So we are just the easiest target, same thing that happened to a lot of traders before.
If you're mid career like me, just get ready for the idea that your career is probably much shorter than you thought it will be and you will need to retrain. It will suck but many others have done it.
Is there a negative impact to a career if you join a PE owned b2b Saas? I've heard recruiters don't bother with you as you'll be seen as a low skilled
A mistake to make here is to conflate 'AI' with some non sensual dream of 'AGI'.
LLMs are able to do a lot of what a swe does and if nothing else that just means we need less SWEs.
LLMs and Agents are not automating SWE, but they are changing it.Interviews have become nightmares, even at 'non-tech' companies, making switching very time consuming and difficult.A lot of SWE work is objectively make-work, and a lot of startups are building fluff or things that are net negative to society.Beyond this, the supply for SWEs vs the demand is clearly imbalanced on the supply...
How does one go from a career spent in financial software, data science, ML and web dev towards game dev or some other industry that might benefit from software skills?
Currently working with a scale up with a very rocky future.Joined about 3 years back, always felt weird about this place. Multiple leaders have left, and to be honest I don't really see the value my team brings to the place anyway.At this point I'm only really here for the immigration sponsorship. Otherwise, I would have considered quitting without anything lined up to just take a break and...