What surprised me during my research scientist job search at top AI labs

I write this post for two primary audiences: CS PhD graduates who are probably like me, who spent 5-6 years working on multiple research papers and now trying to look for industry opportunities.

After seeing the reactions on Twitter, I want to share a different angle: what surprised me during my own research scientist job search.

There are two recent blog posts from Alisa and Silvia, both CS PhD students, on how they prepared and got into frontier labs such as OpenAI and Google Deepmind. I highly recommend them.