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.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You want a public signal that actually helps your work, not empty internet vanity.
- You are changing lanes and need the version that still makes sense when the story is not neat yet.
- You would rather hear Surya's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
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I pulled the sharpest parts of this lane into a guide so you do not have to reconstruct the answer from memory later.
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Show notes
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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