> 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.
Unfortunately 'senior engineers' who have 30+ years of experience in the valley and other places are past their prime in SV by most top tech companies as engineers.
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.