Career

Interviewing for other jobs in tech can make you a more competent engineer. My premise for this argument is that when you prepare an interview for a new role you need to prepare to answer questions, technical and non-technical, in a domain that is different from your day to day work. This forces you to step out of your daily work and read and think about different domains and technologies. During the interview process you will get an idea of how well you performed, whether that is via self reflection, or feedback from the emloyer. This gives you a pretty good idea of where you are lacking knowledge and a good direction of where to focus next. ...

This is my story of how I went from non-tech into becoming a Machine Learning Engineer. I must have told this story multiple times in many different forms, but this will be the first time it goes into writing. Enjoy. I have a bachelor’s degree in Commerce. I found the last few years of school so exhausting that the thought of doing an engineering degree put me off. Four + years of no life? Oft, no thanks. I also thought I wasn’t smart enough to do engineering anyway so instead I chose Commerce - which “coincidentally” was the same degree my brother was doing. ...