Ask HN: Landing a Job Interview at Microsoft Research ?

10 points·haidrali··6 comments

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

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First 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.

Do 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.

We 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.

thanks you johnloeber for you serious suggestion.

Apply to http://insightdatascience.com/

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