Surprising lessons from my research scientist job search | Yong Zheng-Xin

Things I wish I knew before.

Surprising lessons from my research scientist job search | Yong Zheng-Xin Surprising lessons from my research scientist job search Things I wish I knew before. Published 24 June 2026 On This Page 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, and after seeing the reactions on Twitter , I want to share a different angle: what surprised me during my own research scientist job search. I write this post for two primary audiences: CS PhD graduates who are proba

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