I landed a Big Tech AI job. Treating my career like a science lab helped me overcome my fear of learning AI.

A product designer share how embracing her inner "mad scientist" and experimenting with AI helped her land a job at Adobe, with no formal background in machine learning.

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I landed a Big Tech AI job. Treating my career like a science lab helped me overcome my fear of learning AI.

I landed a Big Tech AI job. Treating my career like a science lab helped me overcome my fear of learning AI.

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