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Engineering PhD in C1 |
| Message Name: |
My experience |
| Date Posted: |
03/07/2006 |
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You mean to tell me they pay people over $50k w/ advanced degrees to sit around and play with excel & powerpoint all day?
Sounds more like an entry-level position that would be good for a recent college grad to get experience, then move on to a "real" company.
From what I've heard (a buddy of mine works there), the campus has a "young" culture, most likely fresh outta school, bubbling w/ fresh ideas & dreams of being CEO.
If this is indeed the case, it wouldn't surprse me to find out you'd be reduced to doing 9th grade AP math to get the job done. |
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Hi,
Let me give you a background about me so that may help you get a little clear picture.
I did an MS, worked for 4 years in two research startups, both in data mining/statistical machine learninf R&D with contract work from NASA/NSF.
When I came here, I interacted with a number of T7 stats who generally are Industrial Engg. MS graduates who have taken 1 course in statistics.
I met with a few Stat PhDs, and my inference is that either they are not from top college, or they took the job because of their specific job market
If you are hoping to work on "Hidden Markov Models", or "Bayesian networks", or "support vector machines", then forget it.
At best, they use SAS as an end user/blackbox. I dont think that there would be many guys who know the actual algorithms.
And yes, I get 70K for excel, powerpoint and good PR with non-analysts.
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