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It’s not just executives, it’s many employees at most companies

It’s not just executives, it’s many employees at most companies. I’m a hiring manager for multiple roles across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and ops. 90% of candidates (regardless of IC vs. manager, regardless of seniority) loves to ask what the company’s AI strategy is, or “how will AI impact your business in the next 5 years?” It’s easy to say the hype is driven by the execs at the top. Maybe it is. But your average IC is equally interested, in my experience.

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I agree with the folks at GS. Every non-tech corporation in the world is trying to figure out some kind of "AI strategy," but most executives and managers have no clue as to what they're doing or ought to be doing with respect to "AI." They're like patsies joining a very expensive game of poker they don't understand, and they are driven by FOMO, ready and eager to put down gobs of cash on the table, because they don't want to miss their chance of winning. They are on track to learn predictable lessons that cannot be learned in any other way.

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If they're not asking more pointed questions about your tech as it is today, that suggests that you have very junior people in your hiring pipeline. [edit] Or at least those are the only people that make it to the stage of talking with the hiring manager.

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> 90% of candidates (regardless of IC vs. manager, regardless of seniority) loves to ask what the company’s AI strategy is, or “how will AI impact your business in the next 5 years?” It may be possible that they just want to sound as if they are "aware" of the latest trends, especially considering how often companies talk about it.

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