Hi Blinders! I need help with career choice. Context: I take career growth very seriously, to a point that i need no wlb. And I'm a strong believer in AGI and wish i could work on more core staff. been at G for over 6 years, still at L5. Tried promo a few times, no success (reorg hit me hard), still no this time. Also my current team is not doing core ai research/application. Right now i have two external offers, one from fang and one from an early stage startup, both are L6. Internally i have an opportunity to join DeepMind to work on some core AGI staff. If i go to fang, I'll fix promo issue, but I'll continue to work on upper layer applications rather than fundamental modeling works. If i go to the startup, I'll fix promo, and i can work on fundamental modeling work, but they have chip shortages issues. (if GPT5 continues to scale, there is no way for them to catch up) If i choose Deepmind, I'll be working on core modeling, but my level is still 5 and there is no pay change. (likely to drop since i Got good ratings in the past, unlikely to continue that rating in the new team at the beginning) (i applied to openai, but saidly i didn't get any interview) Any suggestions? #engineering #software Yoe: 6 TC 500k
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Join deepmind. Last a year or so. Then jump externally to L6/L7.
Thanks folks! Decided to move on with DeepMind! Grind hard!
I don’t follow how “still at L5” goes with “6 YoE”.
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