Episode 122
How To Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI Development Team In 18 Months - w/ Kunal
🎯 That bet ran through a master's in the USA at Northeastern University and dropped him into the 2024 job market with no return offer and no sponsorship. Harder for an international student.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Kunal's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI Development Team In 18 Months - w/ Kunal
- Building Projects: The Key to Job Success
- A 30-million-parameter LLM from scratch, trained for about $50 when the same build can cost thousands.
- promise you will know exactly how he did it and how to get hired at Frontier AI roles in big tech. Let's build an LLM....
- entire Amazon loop from the inside. Lead code don't forget it. It's still relevant guys. I have solved around 450...
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I still remember I have completed my internship at home tap and I have not got the full-time offer from the company where I interned at because they were not sponsoring H1B and the market was
not sponsoring H1B and the market was pretty bad back then. That's Kunal Mishra. 18 months later he was building Amazon's frontier AI models. By the end of this episode, I promise you will know exactly how he did
promise you will know exactly how he did it and how to get hired at Frontier AI roles in big tech. Let's build an LLM. So I built LLM from scratch that is a 30 million parameter model. I spent like $50 to $100.
model. I spent like $50 to $100. Honestly, I'll say that has landed me job in my first company as well as in Amazon. Amazon. The exact project playbook plus the entire Amazon loop from the inside.
the entire Amazon loop from the inside. Lead code don't forget it. It's still relevant guys. I have solved around 450 problems for Amazon. I believe 40% is behavioral. So please focus on that.
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🎯 That bet ran through a master's in the USA at Northeastern University and dropped him into the 2024 job market with no return offer and no sponsorship. Harder for an international student. A 30-million-parameter LLM from scratch, trained for about $50 when the same build can cost thousands. (Yes, fifty dollars.) That one project got him his first US job.
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