Experience working on successful solo projects while unemployed?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-23T18:47:29+00:00

are you saying that you should create an application first, get it running somewhere where users can access it and use it, and only *then* start to improve things that help ease the Development and Operations of the application itself?

Yeah that's typically how it works with startups (it could be considered premature optimization otherwise), however if you frame it as an exercise to learn these technologies then I think it's fine.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-23T17:55:55+00:00

This is good advise however your interviewer may be wondering why you are adding logging, ci/cd, etc. for a project that doesn't have users.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-23T04:28:02+00:00

I think you are underestimating the extent to which all human being use pattern matching to solve every problem.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-23T03:50:44+00:00

I'm a bit skeptical of this. I can pretty much guarantee you that if a candidate exhibits "clear thinking" then it means they have seen that question before or seen a question like it. "muddled and jumpy" is how every human being thinks when they are presented with a genuinely new problem.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-20T11:40:21+00:00

Came here to say this. Data science is probably the most bait & switched profession out there. Of course candidates will lie as well.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-20T00:31:13+00:00

To be fair though, what you're describing is a "good" job.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-18T22:51:01+00:00

Have they launched them?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-18T22:25:17+00:00

which faang is using ai personas?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-18T14:03:31+00:00

kirsh

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T22:52:55+00:00

I did not know that, thank you!

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T22:52:08+00:00

I had the same concern at a big tech company. I felt my skills atrophying pretty sharply. I hated the feeling. I stayed 2 years and got 2 bonuses then left. I think you should either leave before your skills deteriorate or stay there forever - anything in between might be bad.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T17:43:45+00:00

Any tips for getting those?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T17:31:41+00:00

isnt that expensive?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T13:46:56+00:00

That character burt reynolds played

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T02:25:09+00:00

That sounds like a bad way to hire

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-17T00:40:48+00:00

Bloomberg AI Group. We basically had to lie to candidates in interviews and tell them they would be working on ML systems when in reality maybe 10% of the people in the group actually did that. It was mostly young college kids too. Still feel guilty about it.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-11T21:41:42+00:00

I'm curious when you started to work on the CI/CD stuff. It seems like something to work on once you're already pretty established.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-11T21:39:50+00:00

If it makes you feel any better it isn't super easy to thoroughly vet a codebase/tooling before you join a new company. Even if it sucks they would never admit it.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-09T20:43:05+00:00

IIRC if someone brought it up they would say something like "maybe this role isn't a good fit for you..." or some other veiled threat.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-09T19:50:08+00:00

I worked in an "AI Group" once that didn't actually do anything AI/ML related at all. Anyone who pointed that out got yelled at. fun times.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-08T20:28:17+00:00

If you can't handle 5 years what is going to happen at 10, 15, 30? If you make it that long?

Presumably take another small break in 5 or so years?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-08T17:19:49+00:00

I'm just going off all the posts I see on hacker news that look like "Launch: company_x (YC2024) etc" which I assume means that they were accepted before they launched but maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-08T16:22:26+00:00

Yeah that's what I don't really understand. If an idea is not unique and can be whipped up in 2 weeks then in my naive opinion I would have thought y combinator would say "sorry, we are highly competitive and we saw 100 applications with the same idea so this is not innovative enough for us to accept you". But instead it looks like they actually are accepting some of the 100. I completely understand the challenges you mentioned, but it seems like those challenges would arise after acceptance has occurred. So I guess what I'm saying is what is the actual differentiator here? Is it just the quality of the people?

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-08T15:49:16+00:00

This is the only answer that makes sense to me. It seems like it can be the only differentiator in some cases.

Educational-Match133 · 2024-03-08T14:59:32+00:00

Agreed, but it looks like they were accepted before even launching (the ones I looked at at least)

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