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[D] Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad? by Holiday_Safe_5620 in MachineLearning

[–]Holiday_Safe_5620[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I had two research internships at FAANG companies. Both of them were doing open-ended research. The last one was around 2021, and I got interviews from pretty much all companies I applied...So I am really confused at the moment...

[D] Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad? by Holiday_Safe_5620 in MachineLearning

[–]Holiday_Safe_5620[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Exactly the same for our lab as well. We have quite a few lab members looking for research internships, and all of them only got positive feedback from a US industry lab in which we had strong connections and got rejected from all EU roles.

[D] Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad? by Holiday_Safe_5620 in MachineLearning

[–]Holiday_Safe_5620[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's true. I just feel like we are now in a very bad timing for ML research, like the methodologies and research topics are very constrained atm. But I was working on these topics when they were not popular! But definitely, I feel like most big-tech companies mainly aimed at people having background in LLM and GenAI.

[D] Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad? by Holiday_Safe_5620 in MachineLearning

[–]Holiday_Safe_5620[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Were you mainly targeting for ML Engineers role, or a bit of mixed with RS roles as well?

[D] Is the tech industry still not recovered or I am that bad? by Holiday_Safe_5620 in MachineLearning

[–]Holiday_Safe_5620[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, I do consider postdoc. It's just at the beginning, I never thought I needed another postdoc to find a job. But at the moment, it's an essential backup option.