Legend says Sama refused to learn DSA for Microsoft Interview after getting inspired by some Indian LinkedIn Influencers.
He tried joining google, but couldn't invert a binary tree 🌲
This is epic moves from Satya Nadella Sam Altman is on such a path, I wonder what kind of a negotiation happened to make him okay with being a big tech employee
Probably promised autonomy for his research group I feel we should not underestimate the researchers he will be bringing along.
Though I am surprised with his move with him founding OpenAI with the goal to make AGI accessible to everyone and not chain it to a for profit company like Microsoft
Sam Altman is treated as some sort of AI pioneer, which is extremely overblown by the media. The guy is not an AI researcher / engineer or anything and is just a figurehead. The current Generative AI revolution was started by Google and an Indian named ashish vaswani in his seminal paper " Attention is all you need," where he introduced transformers. Even at OpenAI, there are plenty of capable people like IIya who can drive the company forward and can do a much better job.
As for Microsoft, MSR was once the pioneer in AI research (Especially Computer Vision), but now is a shell of its former shelf. Most of the original engineers and researchers have moved to better places like Nvidia, Google Brain, or FAIR because Satya gutted the research spending and paid them peanuts. Now, Sam is apparently hired by Satya to lead AI research initiatives at MS, which is ironic because it was self-inflicted by Satya in the first place. There is no way this will work out .
PS : I made this comment in another thread and just copied and pasted it here.
Satya also changed the hiring policy a lot by lowering the bar for recruitment and promotions for one gender. There were a lot of instances of managers with bachelor's degree managing a team of PhDs and forced many talented researchers and engineers out. MSR once had people like Kaiming doing incredible research but lost most of them to their competitors (FAIR, Google Brain, Startups) owing to a lot of politics and peanut pay. If not for Satya, MS in-house research would be talked about in the same breath as OpenAI or Google and there would be no need for 10B $ investments in the name of AI
And yet you nooglers got beaten in the AI race by a startup after chest thumping the word AI in every sentence for the last decade.
But he was still asked, “Where do u see urself in 5 years?”
His answer was probably as the guy who fires the Openai board.
Currently Senior at Microsoft with TC ~1 crore, which will drop by 20-25% in few months on hitting cliff.
With no SSA or promotion in sight, what are the best companies in India to switch in next 4-5 months for max TC and career growth ...
Reading this, i feel i am wasting oxygen
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