435: Scaling Up Machine Learning
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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Episode description
Erica Greene joins us to discuss her work as a machine learning manager at Etsy, how they tackle problem-solving, how they implement ML scaling, and more.
In this episode you will learn:
- Erica’s role at Etsy and problem solving between platforms [2:28]
- Interesting failures Erica has navigated [25:40]
- How does Erica’s team select problems to solve [33:07]
- Engineering at scale [40:15]
- What does Erica’s working day look like? [46:30]
- Etsy is hiring [53:00]
- Diversity in hiring [57:12]
- Do data scientists need PhDs? [1:01:26]
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