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Recommending PhD Stack (csphd.org), a public-interest platform maintained by an assistant professor at a U.S. university, providing end-to-end support and community engagement for CS/AI/EE/Stats PhD students from enrollment to career.

Alisa Liu (UW NLP PhD) shared her job search experience of getting an OpenAI Research Scientist offer, including suggestions such as systematic learning, deep practice, hand-writing Transformer, etc.

A fifth-year CS PhD student at Brown University shares surprising lessons from their research scientist job search, including that only one or two papers matter and that interviews often focus on solving team problems rather than past research.

A PhD student announces they are joining OpenAI and shares a blog post with surprising lessons from their research scientist job search, including how only a few papers matter and how interviews often test problem-solving on the spot.

A computer science PhD, Alisa Liu, is about to join OpenAI. She interned at NVIDIA, Google, and the Allen Institute for AI, and open-sourced an AI project based on her paper.

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.

Alisa Liu (alisawuffles), a UW NLP PhD in her final year and recipient of the OpenAI SuperAlignment Fellowship, announced she will be joining OpenAI next week. In her blog, she transparently detailed the entire job search process, including 46 recruiter screens and interviews with 11 top AI labs.

A detailed personal account of the industry job search process for a PhD in NLP, covering timeline, interview strategies, and lessons learned.

The author asks about career implications of pursuing a PhD in evolutionary algorithms for the ML community, discussing whether it limits opportunities compared to a more ML-centric PhD.

Silvia Sapora shares a comprehensive guide on interviewing for Research Scientist roles at top AI labs, covering preparation, logistics, negotiation, and emotional challenges, based on her successful experience landing offers from DeepMind and others.

Discussion on the rapid development of the AI industry, suggesting that after completing a PhD, one may miss major breakthroughs and financial returns, emphasizing that the industry won't wait for you.

Angeliki Giannou, co-inventor of Looped Transformers, has successfully defended her PhD thesis and is set to begin a new role. Congratulations were shared by Dimitris Papailiopoulos on social media.

A PhD student at ICLR seeks practical tactics to overcome social anxiety and break into existing conversation groups without generic confidence advice.

A PhD student seeks advice on effective networking strategies at ICLR conference, specifically whether approaching poster authors about internships is appropriate or if it creates burden for presenters.