435: Scaling Up Machine Learning

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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