100% the person building and learning as they go
A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape
A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape
This is how you get a four-week transition from "I can fix twitter search in an internship!" to "twitter search is unfixable." Ideally, a PhD teaches you to bust your behind doing a deep dive on a seemingly unsolvable problem for three-five years.
If only we could recalibrate ourselves to stop the search for easy money and remind ourselves that some problems are just genuinely hard.
The best senior engineers on the planet have a BS and 30 years experience
They are expected to be in management roles.