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Yeah, it was dumb. One company gave me an offer to lead engineering for their LLM team and another wouldn’t even interview me because I didn’t have any LLM experience. Clearly one of them was wrong.
Obviously there’s a profitable side hustle here. Train yourself an LLM on resumes that land interviews and offers, and sell access to it… :-)
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Per year? No mate, that's per month... But on the other hand rent in SF (which is where I do my remote work from) is high, so I can't get ahead.
If you're making 6 million a year then rent--even in SF--should be manageable.
I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…
This is the answer. Consider it a paid internship, do it for 15 month and then go make double somewhere else.
I’m getting rejected from everything and recruiter contact has been virtually non existent since December. A few recruiters have reached out, but they usually don’t go far because “oh you don’t have recent professional experience in random language/library we use”
It was a mistake to enter this industry in the first place, particularly the way I did it, it’s just unfortunate it was so expensive to learn.
I work as an AI research engineer, so I’m having a totally different experience than the others I’m seeing here. Job market is very very strong for senior AI roles. Multiple offers that were >2x what I was making at a BigTech research lab (depending on how you value the equity). Interview process was much easier than I was expecting- mostly situational interviews (although I was referred in for those). Having said th…
> depending on how you value the equity Zero. Value the equity at zero. Or at most value it like a lottery ticket - something that lets you amuse yourself dreaming about what you’ll do when you “win”. But make all your ongoing plans assuming they equity will be worth zero. Either because the startup fails, or because you get screwed out of any payout by the founders or board, or by future investors insisting on deals…
I don't think the same can be said of FAANG equity, which is the context this was in: while it is still a good lesson to treat it as worth zero, you can regularly exchange it for cash at market prices.
I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…
Also look at companies that aren't obviously software companies. Manufacturing, Transportation, Energy, etc., all need programmers, too. And many of those jobs are more interesting than you'd think.
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I think there are plenty who haven’t, probably lots for religious reasons. But to not have heard that term is very surprising. There’s even a movie, half baked.
I am not aware of any major religion that outright bans cannabis consumption. If anything, it is probably the fact that cannabis possession has enough of a chance to derail one’s life via the judicial system in many places around the world so that people do not want to risk it.
What I've known for years, I'm finally seeing first hand: There are way too many people out there that should never have been engineers in the first place.
This is a rebalancing. Those who are competent will always be hired. Those who are are not, the jig is up.