Getting spotted and other job opportunities

For some time, Kaggle was a hotspot where employers could find rare competencies in data analysis and machine learning modeling. Kaggle itself offered a job board among the discussion forums and many recruiters roamed the leaderboard looking for profiles to contact. Companies themselves held contests explicitly to find candidates (Facebook, Intel, and Yelp arranged recruiting competitions for this purpose) or conveniently pick up the best competitors after seeing them perform excellently on certain kinds of problems (such as the insurance company AXA did after its telematics competitions). The peak of all this was marked by a Wired interview with Gilberto Titericz, where it was stated that “highly ranked solvers are flooded with job offers” (https://www.wired.com/story/solve-these-tough-data-problems-and-watch-job-offers-roll-in/).

Recently, things have changed somewhat and many Kagglers report that the best that you can...