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zzzthelastuser t1_iw7nx3a wrote

I know many researchers who barely program/know how to program aside from scripting and tweaking stuff they found on github. So I would say you will be fine!

But admittedly I think it wont be as easy to enter these jobs without prior job experience.

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badhandml OP t1_iw7osn2 wrote

So far my job experience has been TAing and a research internship in a FAANG company. However, at least within my organisation, the new PhD grads in ML roles were expected to write quite a lot of code for their job. The only way to reduce this work was to transition into management, which generally required a promotion + 2 years of experience.

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DisWastingMyTime t1_iw835jt wrote

Maybe try pure algo positions in vision/medical/sensor domain, less code more domain knowledge, analytical problem solving and paper surveys, not sure how it is at FANG though

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badhandml OP t1_iw83es9 wrote

Positions like that seem quite rare at least right now.

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