Career Advice

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Abstract

Date: 20190830

Q: What are the things to consider for a position? Location, Requirements, Position, level, Total Compensation(TC)

• Consider the levels and career paths in each company
• Consider to be "specific" engineer or general engineer
• Consider the living expense in the location
• Prediction the trend "yourself" and make decision
  • Trend: Software development engineer vs. Machine learning (ML) engineer
  • Data scientist vs. ML engineer
  • Research engineer vs. ML engineer
  • Research scientist vs. Applied scientist
• Risk and compensation
• Long term goal: to become the top1 1 of the niche market in the world

References

Check the levels and compensation

• Levels.fyi - Add Your Compensation Anonymously https://www.levels.fyi/addcomp.html
• Topics - Blind https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics
• 一亩三分地-美国加拿大留学申请|工作就业|英语考试|学习生活信噪比最高的网站 https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/

  Total compensation

• Compensation: Incentive Plans: Stock Options https://hr-guide.com/data/G445.htm
• Restricted Stock Units: Everything You Need to Know https://www.upcounsel.com/restricted-stock-units