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Ask HN: Landing a Job Interview at Microsoft Research ?
I have spent one and half year in software development along with working in NLP topics like Summarization, Topic Extraction and Classification.
I would like to have a career at Microsoft Research. Can anyone please guide me how to lang interview at Microsoft Research or any other leading research institute/company in Natural Language Processing
- johnloeber 12y agoDo you have serious research experience at the postgraduate level? Working as a software dev doing what is -- no offense intended -- entry-level NLP will not land you an interview at MS Research. If you want to have a shot at applying to MS Research, I suggest you publish at least one paper in the domain in which you want to do work there. Also, people rarely have 'careers' at MS Research. Most MS Researchers I know went there for one or two years after getting their PhDs and then did something else.
- haidrali 12y agothanks you johnloeber for you serious suggestion.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoWe have post docs but most fulltime employees are long term. And that's what makes getting a job in the Redmond or Cambridge labs so hard: Turnover is very low.
- reality_czech 12y agoFirst spend 6 years getting a PhD at a top-tier university. While you're there, publish awesome groundbreaking research. When you graduate and realize there's no jobs in academia, then you can crash at MSR for a year or two... assuming it even still exists by then. They closed the Silly Valley office this year and who knows what's next.
- bosky101 12y agoApply to http://insightdatascience.com/ http://insightdatascience.com/
- haidrali 12y agoThanks
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