Re: Not sure comparing job postings is that accurate
"I've always understand Watson to be a play for the far more lucrative support industry aimed at automatically white collar jobs like insurance claims handling"
Then you need to stop listening to your IBM sales droid. Watson is, first and foremost, a brand. It's not a product, it's not a technology, it's not even a nebulous "solution" or "platform". It's something like 35 legacy (mostly acquired) products bolted together in various marketing solutions to try and squeeze some more cash out of old, dead products. Speaking at the technology level it's usually just Cognos and SPSS with a bit of Lucene thrown in.
It's also an utter failure of the worst kind. IBM and Watson stripped $62 _million_ dollars MD Anderson, a cancer research institute, before being unceremoniously thrown out the door in disgrace. Buyer beware.
IBM don't hire top data and ML folks because top data and ML folks aren't daft enough to work for IBM. These are people who like flexibility, innovation and open source tooling. That's the antithesis of what IBM are about.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
