If you need a better job or are waiting to keep this one my advice as a manager is take advantage of all these perks they go on about giving to employees. Take all the d-mb linked in courses and have them on your profile, have the company help pay for certifications or college or CE courses and bulk up your resume and work your a-s off, by 2027 there’s going to be a major shift and US workers will be a skeleton crew unless the laws change: Employee relations are staring to hire overseas workers who can’t u destined English and HR is non existent. They will keep piling on more ludicrous procedures for QA across all departments and doc you over the most insignificant thing so when they do lay you off it’s because you’re performance was bad and you failed to maintain quality and productivity. Start looking for other jobs now. Re write your resume and good luck.
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@jt Right! Yeah, not sure who actually designed the training or the final capstone projects. I'm guessing a team in the original Optum AI department, but who knows. All that I know is that it's one thing to use Copilot for assistance; it's another to work on creating or training LLMs.
Getting certifications ( not certificates) offers by accredited programs outside of the org are the best bet and see if they can reimburse you. If not then just take it as a growth for your career and starting building up your skill set. Most certifications are under 1 k and study guides can be found free if just how much effort you want to put in or if you’re happy with where you’re at.
@js who designed this training? It has huge gaps. One does not just build models or engineer prompts even with AI assistance. You have to have solid data and object oriented programming skills. Don’t care which language. Then you MUST have a solid background in stats.
Anyone know the point of this training?
@jd AI Dojo is an OT mandate, regardless of your role or team. I get your point, though. The "certification" is useless outside the org, like you said. It's funny though how they say so many people have enrolled in the program. Well yeah, there's no choice in the matter.
Most of the certs they offer are worthless outside of the company. It’s comical seeing people race to complete AI Dojo, when no other company will care about that
If you don’t already have it CompTIA A+ and Scrum or anything Agile. If you already have this then you need to work in your portfolio and getting experience if you don’t have those then look for an actual certification not a certificate like google offers. ASQ has some certs people can get look into education reimbursement offered by the company.
@am Another past manager here. I opted to leave in August. The writing on the wall seemed pretty clear to me.
All about cost ratios. IT/data analyst type work is huge. 6/1 meaning I could staff 6 off shore for the same price as 1 on shore(India). Ireland is much closer, but better tax system.
which certificates/courses would you recommend for people in software engineering to help with next job searching? Ideally one that could land me a job that would be safe from both Ai and offshoring? i am thinking of Security+ but I am not sure
The people posting on LinkedIn they did AI Dojo is hilarious
Well it’s good to know this manager is concerned about the employees. That’s a first. So when will you be leaving.
Better off leaving right now IMHO. Those certificates and trainings are completely worthless unless you are working the phones or very entry level and need some practical experience, then I get it. For most workers none of those offerings are anything you would put on a resume
I would never take advice from a "manager" at this company. In 20 years i have not seen any management occur.
It's almost impossible to get fired for performance at this company. You have to actively try to be bad at your job to even have that suggested from my experience.
They're not going to can you for performance, they're just going to outright lay you off. A company of this size doesn't want to deal with the headaches of lawsuits and whatnot. It's way easier for them to just give you a severance and let you collect UI.
@OP
Very well stated and sound advice.