Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you can show, and what you cannot There is a particular kind of career frustration that belongs almost exclusively to engineers who are good at their jobs. You have spent three years building retrieval systems that serve real users at real scale. You have run the evaluations, argued the architecture, cut the latency, absorbed the incident at two in the morning. And when someone asks to see your work, you have nothing to point at, because all of it lives behind a corporate single sign-on and a confidentiality agreement you signed on your first day without reading closely. The standard advice at this point is to go and build a portfolio project. That advice is written for people who lack experience. You do not lack experience. You lack permission to show the experience you have, which…
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