u/Lamp_Shade_Head

I get it, the obvious counterargument is that all the laid off DS folks flood the market too, making it more competitive. But I honestly have no idea how many data scientists were actually cut in these recent rounds, so I’m struggling to gauge whether this realistically tanks my job search or if it’s more noise than signal.

More importantly though, what’s the actual move here? What are people doing to stay competitive?

I got an interview invitation for a Machine Learning Engineer role at a FAANG company. There are two issues. I am not an MLE, so preparing for it feels nearly impossible. Also, I have never even interviewed for an MLE interview, let alone at FAANG.

I am currently a Data Scientist and have been interviewing, so I feel good about my preparation for DS roles. Can I tell the recruiter that I believe I am a better fit for a DS role than MLE? Do you have any other suggestions?

I did a physical onsite recently where they asked me to travel to their office, about 1.5 hours each way. The interviewers were nice and the interviews went pretty well, so I was hoping to hear back from them. The opposite happened. It has been two weeks since the onsite and I have not heard anything.
The recruiter was very polite before the onsite, but after it they completely stopped responding.

I had to take a day off work and make arrangements in my personal life, and the company cannot even bother to send a rejection email? I have never had a job search this difficult before.