Episode 106
How To Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do.
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- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Surya's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
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- Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
- are not doing what every YouTube video is asking you to do right now. So depth in a domain is actually hard for an AI...
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If you think using Claude every day is the same as having AI skills, you are not getting hired in 2026. My guest today, Surya Kari is a senior generative AI data scientist at Amazon. His
day today involves working with Fortune 500's and Frontier AI models that are reshaping the job market right now. I asked him what actually gets you hired in 2026 and his answer really flipped how
I think about all of this. I mean a lot of people use Claude or Copilot as like autocomplete. For you to be able to stand out, you should also be able to think through the output. The people getting hired
are not doing what every YouTube video is asking you to do right now. So depth in a domain is actually hard for an AI to replace and that is the actual mode that you build around you because that is
your insurance against a general CI. For folks like me right that don't have that foundational knowledge that haven't spent so many hours doing these Udacity courses, what do you think people
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Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do. So what actually gets you hired in 2026? I sat down with Surya Kari, a Senior Generative AI Data Scientist at Amazon, to find out.
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