I saw an article somewhere the other day that suggested that even really good Machine Learning candidates were failing to get good jobs.

Apparently the universities are now churning out many ML graduates … but the jobs are surprisingly not there.

The article suggested that the top users of AI have decided to build very small teams of stellar AI gurus : geniuses with multiple PhDs. The firms do NOT want hoards of simply ‘very good’ ML candidates.

Is this likely to be true?

If so, is it just the top firms which are this fussy? In which case, are there other firms who are happy to hire the ‘good’ ML candidates?