So I became a .NET consultant last year, at the start it was fine, learned new technologies like .NET/Angular 7, and Azure, after I got bored of my old Java job. But now it kind of happened again, I got rented out to some product database company with some legacy-shit AngularJS app, and .NET backend that has junk code (for example, 20% of their 400+ unit test fails, so the guy in charge have disabled them in the build pipeline. And they have a bunch of outdated code that just sits around/or is commented out, e.g. there is a "productController" and "product2Controller" both in use.) And they didn't even have urgent tasks for me, I finish the task and the guy working there needs time to think up something new...
I will be there untill Christmas, unless I jump ship again. Now I did get contacted by 50+ recruiters so far, although most are similar web dev jobs, some are indeed more interesting like machine learning, unreal engine, some Azure distributed game engine. You may wonder why am I even in my current job? Well they had 3 recruiters contact me, and they supposedly have the biggest AI department in town, which I could possibly switch over to, which seemed interesting.
However, when I look at it, it seems they do mostly boring projects where they sligthly optimize some stuff with statistics, do data cleanup (which I heard is 66% of typical such roles) before feeding their AI models, which they got from Google, and I just don't seem on their wavelength or something (I have a Master's degree in artificial intelligence, while they seem to all have math or physics degrees, and they say reductive stuff like "AI is just statistics").
My thinking was I really need to stop listening to these recruiters, and apply for a job myself next time, since you can't really trust them when they boast about companies. (some job I interviewed with, supposedly for some AI focused role, the interviewer said "actually we don't do any AI"). And I just looked up my colleague sitting next to me, no disrespect to him, he's a "senior" consultant while I'm "junior", yet he actually started at a college the same year as I started in university, got out after his bachelor and started as "non-junior" for 3 years at another company, then became senior last year. So although I earn good money, it seems kind of humiliating and like I'm wasting my talent, when some recruiters are asking me if I am interested in their senior positions.
I will be there untill Christmas, unless I jump ship again. Now I did get contacted by 50+ recruiters so far, although most are similar web dev jobs, some are indeed more interesting like machine learning, unreal engine, some Azure distributed game engine. You may wonder why am I even in my current job? Well they had 3 recruiters contact me, and they supposedly have the biggest AI department in town, which I could possibly switch over to, which seemed interesting.
However, when I look at it, it seems they do mostly boring projects where they sligthly optimize some stuff with statistics, do data cleanup (which I heard is 66% of typical such roles) before feeding their AI models, which they got from Google, and I just don't seem on their wavelength or something (I have a Master's degree in artificial intelligence, while they seem to all have math or physics degrees, and they say reductive stuff like "AI is just statistics").
My thinking was I really need to stop listening to these recruiters, and apply for a job myself next time, since you can't really trust them when they boast about companies. (some job I interviewed with, supposedly for some AI focused role, the interviewer said "actually we don't do any AI"). And I just looked up my colleague sitting next to me, no disrespect to him, he's a "senior" consultant while I'm "junior", yet he actually started at a college the same year as I started in university, got out after his bachelor and started as "non-junior" for 3 years at another company, then became senior last year. So although I earn good money, it seems kind of humiliating and like I'm wasting my talent, when some recruiters are asking me if I am interested in their senior positions.
Specs: intel i5 3570k @ 3.4GHz;
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit