jak22
3d ago
I work for Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte recruits pretty heavily out of the college I went to where I graduated with a major in Business Analytics and minors in Computer Science and Statistics. And I did a pretty heavy amount of personal projects in that time that I had listed on my resume. Some of which include:
- Kaggle Competition - Computer Vision Analysis on Cancer Detection through images
- Senior Project - Trying to predict crypto prices from news article's title's sentiments (This was prior to chatgpt being a thing)
Within Deloitte consulting they have a few a lot of different tracks they hire out of. But the recruiter I talked to was looking for 2 types of candidates, engineers and business consultants. Having my major be in business made me think they would want to hire me for the business major, but the recruiter looked at my resume and said, "no, your an engineer, we're going to try and hire you as an engineer". The interview process there wasn't too bad and I passed pretty easily. Although when I started working, I quickly realized that Deloitte doesn't have too many clients who hire for software engineers, and the ones that do, Deloitte passes the actual coding work off to a team in India to save cost. So given my goal was to find a role that would let me code and would be a role that didn't get outsourced to India, I found 2 possible clients who would let me do that.
- One of the FAANG Companies doing Data Engineering work
- Doing Cloud Integrations (AWS, GCP, Azure) projects for banks.
I chose option 1, and I've been doing that for the last 3 years.
As for pay, They started me at 80k, 3 years later I make 115k.
jak22
4d ago
I have been working as a contractor for a FAANG company as a Data Engineer for the last 3 years. And I really need a change of pace. I would like to ideally do work in AI Safety research, but barring that I would like to do Ai/SW Engineering where I work on a real product. Does anyone have advice on how I can break into those roles?
I wrote a larger explanation of what I want at a job on my substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-154032964?source=queue But in general I'd love to get thoughts on how to make that transition.
I can see how a Philosophy PHD would maybe help for a AI Research role, but I would assume those roles would be hiring more for CS or Stats PHDs no? Is there something about Philosphy PhDs I'm missing?
Also, I would like to avoid going back to school if I can. As I think I do already have a pretty robust skillset that could already be productive in these roles, I think it's more about the signaling game for me to find my way into these roles.
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