We talked about:

Tatiana’s background
Going from academia to healthcare to the tech industry
What staff engineers do
Transferring skills from academia to industry and learning new ones
The importance of having mentors
Skipping junior and mid-level straight into the staff role
Convincing employers that you can take on a lead role
Seeing failure as a learning opportunity
Preparing for coding interviews
Preparing for behavioral and system design interviews
The importance of having a network and doing mock interviews
How much do staff engineers work with building pipelines, data science, ETC, MPOps, etc.?
Context switching
Advice for those going from academia to industry
The most exciting thing about working as an AI staff engineer
Tatiana’s book recommendations


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Website:  http://tatigabru.com/


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