Indian-American machine learning engineer Manoj Tumu, 23, recently left his high-paying job at Amazon to join Meta.
He was earning an annual package of INR 3.36 crore at Amazon.
After leaving Amazon, he is now set to receive a package of over USD 400,000 (INR 3.52 crore) from his new employer.
He wrote in Business Insider, “In June, I left Amazon to join Meta as a machine learning software engineer for a total compensation of over USD 400,000. I was really excited about it and knew I wanted to take the job as soon as I got the offer.”
Speaking on Machine Learning, he said: “Machine learning has shifted so much. It used to be a lot more acceptable to just use classical techniques, which rely on humans to make decisions about data representations. Now the focus is on deep learning, which taps into artificial neural networks to automatically learn features from raw data.”
He urged students to get an internship, as he emphasised the need for experience as the key to success.
“Experience is the biggest factor. In college, try to get an internship of any kind. I think those stand out the most. When I see the resumes that people post online, asking for advice, I see projects or programming languages taking up space,” he said.
He also mentioned that people should consider taking a lower-paying job initially if it gives them proper exposure to machine learning.
“I chose a lower-paying machine learning role before I started working at Amazon, which I think really opened up more doors for me later,” he said.
Photo: Indian-American machine learning engineer Manoj Tumu, 23, quits Rs 3.36 crore high-paying package with Amazon. Photo: Manoj Tumu Linkedln
