Episode 122
How To Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI 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 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.
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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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