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Why would you expect a research lab to ship a product? Seems like you were interviewing with the wrong group.

A research lab shouldn't directly ship products, but there should be a path from research to productization. MSR seems to mostly lack this path.

It depends on the group. When I interviewed there recently, one of my interviewers was there in exactly this capacity (taking research into products).

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