Career choices, startup equity, variance, and lessons from founding, joining, and leaving startups.
Now the title might be a bit clickbaity but it’s true: when I joined Veriff I had received an offer with a higher salary from a larger company. I decided to write about my choice because, year after year, I’ve kept moving towards riskier ventures in earlier and earlier stages, and in hindsight, I always used to be
It’s common to see job descriptions along the lines of the following. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for a data scientist. Responsibilities: 1. Building big data databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines. 2. Training and deploying deep learning models and neural networks for prediction. 3. Creating dashboards, analyses, visualisationgs and reports. 4. Supporting marketing and other teams with A/B test analyses,
There’s a specific type of person I’ve noticed applying to jobs, participating in ML communities, or writing to me online: software engineers with an interest in machine learning. Their ML background typically consists of a course or two from Andrew Ng [https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=machine%20learning%20andrew%20ng], and perhaps a few other MOOCs. This
