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by DotingThumb

5 months ago

Where to go to get good work in Ai and ml

I was working as head of data and analytics in Zepto , Swiggy , flipkart now is razorpay. I felt work is of very poorly quality in most Indian startup , no idea of kpi, useless machine learning model , no investment in infrastructure. I think no point in joining any Indian startup as very few founder value data Now I have worked in Walmart and Citibank , core strategic decisions happens in USA and headquarters so Indian office is only pleasing the hq with support work Now analytics service like tiger fractal again work is to do sales bring any work and add to top line Witch company even more shit show So I am delusional and thinking of quitting the data and analytics field or build something of my own Data and Ai in India is just to show off and get investor money and load the pnl without return

Elon_Musk

X.com

5 months ago

If you are the head.... then you are the one who needs to setup the framework for what you qualify as good work in AI and ML.

DotingThumb

Razorpay

5 months ago

The Indian founder don't want to invest , just build dashboard and they tell you to cook kpi which is useless

Welt

Remote

5 months ago

Same thing happening in my company as well.Ceo refuse to invest in data infra and quality annotations. But expect high precision and recall(That too with open source data).Even my seniors and leads couldn't do anything to change this.

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Kafkaa

Uber

5 months ago

If you were head of data and analytics in all those startups, you must be quite experienced and would be having good network in IT industry to know about the places where good work is happening.

3xPlusOne

Google

5 months ago

What are your educational qualifications? If you wanna work in model development, you might need a PhD or an M.S with a lot of publications. It's a myth that Indian teams only work on KTLO stuff as there are many teams that work on interesting problems, but they would be looking for certain academic background.

DotingThumb

Razorpay

5 months ago

I am phd from penn state

TheOatmeal

Stealth

5 months ago

Kaafi pareshan lag rahe ho. Kaafi baar likh die aisa post. You should definitely build something. But how will you improve the data conditions btw ?

DotingThumb

Razorpay

5 months ago

Please share your thoughts

Kamlesh

Stealth

5 months ago

If you think you can do a better job, start your own thing. Then you'll know for sure.

Someon

Razorpay

4 months ago

@DotingThumb as a head, it’s your job to bring the change. You need to convince the co-founders why to invest and explain the short and long term ROI. - Iterate and create a vision - Ask them clarifying questions - understand their version of roadmap and question it - get a small budget for some experiments (start small on the big change)

DotingThumb

Razorpay

4 months ago

I have told many founders they say they are fine with excel they don't need to spend on cloud infra or they don't want to capture data

Someon

Razorpay

4 months ago

Could try asking the following to yourself and them: - Why they don’t want to? - why should they? (How it makes business sense)

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Lik

Stealth

5 months ago

Slap a wrapper on top of gpt4. Why waste time. /s