My last working day at Sentient.io was in the past week. It was a great experience working in an AI-based company for over 2 years now and being part of building a lot of cool projects for large reputed clients clients of Sentient.io.
I was working in the awesome science & research(SnR) team with members like Weina Du, Zhang Qiao, Jian Hui, Eugene Lee, Chandra Sekar and Shreya Kishore. I am grateful for some of the ex SnR members like Keng-Teck Ma, Divya Dilip and Clement Tee who helped me a lot and guided me.
I had good rapport with everyone in Sentient.io from Christopher Yeo, Eddie LEONG, CFA, Linda Su Ling Tan, Gloria Koh, Priya Somasundaram , Cedrick Tay ,Aalind Singh, Michael Ng, Mani, Karunakar Vanama, Ramesh.
I really enjoyed my time there and now it’s a time to bid good bye. I even got an opportunity to visit the Sentient.io Singapore office and have a lunch with the team, when I went to speak in FOSSASIA Summit, Singapore last year. Zhang Qiao and Solomon Sim (sentient.io alum) are in the selfie with me.
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I enjoyed working in a startup. Yet it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I will ask you think twice before joining any startup. In Sentient.io, I saw both the positive’s and negatives of working in a startup. It was a roller-coaster ride, yet there is one good reason why you should consider joining a startup.
You learn a ton of things, get engaged in lot of projects. So if you prioritize learning in your career, Kurian would recommend joining a startup. Chip in her article ‘7 reasons not to join a startup and 1 reason to’ 2 said:
I once read somewhere that joining startups is the only way to get 15 years of experience in 5 years. I couldn’t agree more.