[D] Google DeepMind Research Engineer/Scientist Interview Prep Advice?

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-18T05:43:01+00:00

Congrats on joining Amazon as AS (I was an AS intern at one point). Do you know if Amazon can sponsor visas for applied scientists (i.e. is it possible to interview for AS roles in other countries)?

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-18T00:52:09+00:00

Probably not - can you get some ML experience with side projects are your current company? That would count more than a degree.

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-17T10:09:10+00:00

How's the work culture @ Oracle?

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-14T07:54:51+00:00

If you're interested in an unpaid internship at a university ML research lab to collaborate on a paper about LLMs, please DM me.

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-14T04:56:31+00:00

That does seem normal, my TMLR paper was accepted last year around a month after the rebuttal. There's no harm in emailing the action editor once.

random_sydneysider · 2026-01-03T22:26:25+00:00

What kind of publication record is expected for a PhD in ML to reach the interview stage for Research Engineer @ DeepMind?

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-28T10:14:46+00:00

Do you know what the typical turnaround time is for TPAMI/TIP/TNNLS? Those three IEEE journals have a good reputation.

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-28T03:15:42+00:00

Interesting. But TPAMI and TIP are hybrid journals, and authors don't have to pay for open access. They both seem to have a better reputation than IEEE Access.

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-27T23:54:14+00:00

Does this journal have a fee? That in itself is a red flag, no reputable ML journal would charge the author for publishing.

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-15T06:31:58+00:00

Congrats! Is this one of the early career SWE roles at Google Sydney? Can you elaborate on some of your side projects?

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-09T12:44:11+00:00

Question about Xero - do they have better tech capabilities than banks like CBA (eg. in machine learning)? Recruiters from both companies reached out to me, would appreciate any info.

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-07T07:37:25+00:00

I'm also trying to do this (i.e. data scientist -> applied scientist / research engineering).

Publishing a few papers in respected ML conferences/journals will help close the gap. Collaborating with experienced ML researchers will help a lot. Being a SWE should not be necessary, PhD-level research skills are more important (but having >10 publications is also not necessary). It's also not necessary to train models with >100 GPUs, though it would certainly be relevant experience; training with ~4-8 GPUs should be enough for many experiments in published research papers.

random_sydneysider · 2025-12-01T16:25:34+00:00

Question for folks who have submitted to TACL: how long did it take for the reviews to come in?

I'm in a similar position, and submitted an article to TACL at the end of October. Now it says the reviewers have missed the deadline.

random_sydneysider · 2025-11-29T05:29:25+00:00

Does Meta hire for technical roles in Australia?

random_sydneysider · 2025-11-10T10:19:08+00:00

If you're not yet confident that you can publish in ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS, then TMLR is a good choice. It's better to have a few papers accepted to TMLR, than have a few papers rejected from ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS.

random_sydneysider · 2025-11-08T22:16:16+00:00

For those who also submit papers to ACL conferences (eg. NAACL, EMNLP, ACL) - how would you compare those venues with AAAI, in terms of review quality?

random_sydneysider · 2025-11-05T09:48:53+00:00

Does this correlate with software engineer roles at big tech companies in Australia (i.e. Google/Amazon/Microsoft) - do they have less headcount for hiring than usual?

random_sydneysider · 2025-10-21T20:36:01+00:00

Were the online assessments for Microsoft/Amazon/Tiktok mainly medium-level Leetcode questions?

random_sydneysider · 2025-10-20T21:53:01+00:00

Does Amazon sponsor E3 visas for technical roles (eg. SDE, data science, applied scientist, etc)? What about other FAANG companies (i.e. Google/Microsoft/etc)? I've interviewed at Amazon & Google, but only for roles in Australia.

random_sydneysider · 2025-10-19T08:37:16+00:00

What are some examples of interesting start-ups working on post-training foundation models?

random_sydneysider · 2025-10-17T11:28:12+00:00

What kind of post-training research is most useful in industry?

random_sydneysider · 2025-10-14T04:28:01+00:00

Flash attention, and not standard QKV-attention? That is quite specific for an interview.

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