@Hesamation: this PhD student had 47 interviews and 4 offers before she was hired at OpenAI. she practiced with her “notes on LLMs” …
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PhD student Alisa Liu shared her study notes on LLMs and math, which helped her get hired at OpenAI after 47 interviews and 4 offers.
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this PhD student had 47 interviews and 4 offers before she was hired at OpenAI.
she practiced with her “notes on LLMs” and math and they’re a goldmine. super concise and organic and shared to everyone for free. you can use her notes or her topic list to study on your own. https://t.co/EToSG4LeUf
Alisa Liu (@alisawuffles): I’m joining OpenAI next week!🥹 The job search turned out to be really challenging but also super rewarding, so I wrote a small blog to share what I learned along the way and hopefully make the process a little less mysterious for the next person.
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