As entry-level job seekers stack on higher degrees to shield against the threat of AI, the CEO at one of the biggest social media companies says most AI engineers may not even need a prestigious degree to be seen as top talent.
Instead of having to obtain the highest form of education, Adam Mosseri, CEO and president of Instagram, said AI engineers have two things in common: they’re scrappy and quick learners.
“It’s people who are very quick learners who actively experiment,” Mosseri said on an episode of the Good Guys podcast hosted by Josh Peck and Ben Soffer.
Mosseri added that this new wave of AI talent looks very different from the traditional Silicon Valley engineer.
“It’s a much more scrappy type of engineer or researcher really than what most of the Valley has historically hired, which are much more like, ‘This is the right way to build a database that serves this many millions of people over this many data centers where there’s a right way to do it, where you could write a PhD about it.’”
