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A rant about DeepSeek's interview process. First, after passing the written test, they didn't schedule an interview for half a month. By then, offers from other companies had already come through. Only after repeated prodding did they finally schedule the interview. When I interviewed at other companies, none of them required a coding interview, yet DeepSeek still required a written test, and the first two interview rounds were both coding interviews—something I never encountered while interviewing with any other company. During the second round, the interviewer felt that all the problems I described were research problems and had no grasp of what I was talking about; he kept pushing me to talk about what engineering challenges there were. During the coding interview, I had two monitors, and the interviewer said I kept glancing at the left screen, accused me of copying code, told me to stop copying, and said that if I couldn't prove I wasn't copying code, the interview couldn't continue. I felt deeply insulted and immediately decided to terminate the interview. Based on the conduct of both interviewers in the first and second rounds, DeepSeek turned out to be completely different from what I had imagined. I have decided to terminate DeepSeek's interview process, and I'm exposing it on social media. Please spread the word—feel free to share.
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Vlad Feinberg (@FeinbergVlad) is Google DeepMind’s pre-training area lead and I asked him all about how to land a job at a frontier lab like Google DeepMind, Anthropic or OpenAI.
In this episode:
• Skills frontier labs need
• Differences between software engineering and AI research
• Domains that matter for frontier research
• Concrete steps engineers can take to get closer to research
• Jeff Dean spot bonus story
Where to watch:
• YouTube - youtu.be/cDyi91onoJ8
• Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/5XgGwE…
• Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
• Transcript - developing.dev/p/google-deepm…
Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work:
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Skills frontier labs need
08:45 - The difference between AI research and engineering
21:41 - Domains that matter for the frontier
30:50 - Marketing yourself to frontier labs
35:13 - Concrete steps engineers can take
38:29 - Overview of pre-training areas
47:23 - Jeff Dean spot bonus story
50:14 - Favorite Gemini war story
58:59 - Advice for his younger self
01:03:07 - Outro

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Vlad Feinberg@FeinbergVlad
How to land a job at a frontier lab vladfeinberg.com/2026/05/10/how…
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@teej_dv @devinjameson i want to play with composer but i ain't using their ide :/
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hey @cursor_ai , for the past two days, I’ve been encountering multiple errors using the Cursor SDK while performing some daily tasks. model is Composer-2-Fast.

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@ericzakariasson I want to see history chat using which model. It always auto switches to Composer, them I don't know whether i used GPT or Claude.
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Cursor 3 keeps getting better!
What should we add next?
Cursor@cursor_ai
We've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor 3. They bring a little more delight when you are orchestrating agents. Just like in your terminal, you can now split agents for multi-tasking in Cursor.
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@lexfridman @KeyuJin Kind of sad — you can only scratch the surface with these so-called “economists.”
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Here's my conversation with @KeyuJin all about China. She is an economist specializing in China's economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Misconceptions about China
5:17 - Education in China
14:34 - Economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping
19:53 - Mayor economy and GDP growth race
33:40 - Growing up in China
39:18 - First time in the US
43:32 - China's government vs business sector
47:06 - Communism and capitalism
50:45 - Jack Ma
56:58 - China's view on innovation and copying ideas
1:03:35 - DeepSeek moment
1:07:29 - CHIPS Act
1:09:16 - Tariffs and Trade
1:21:41 - Immigration
1:26:28 - Taiwan
1:32:14 - One-child policy
1:40:11 - China's economy collapse predictions
1:44:54 - Advice for visiting China
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无论是编程,房车,英语我行动力都还可以,从0学俩月php就出去面试,学俩月英语就海投,面试中学英语
只要开始行动,方法是否高效就可以,我们需要的不是【高效的学习方法】,而是【能实践下去的方法】
但是!在减肥方面,我发现我和群友一模一样,收集了大量的减肥方法,运动视频,资料,app一大堆
但是我从来都只开始减肥三天就放弃😭😭😭 没有行动
花果山大圣@shengxj1
这个群热闹了几天,我发现大家还是热衷于【收集学习资料】和【探讨学习方法】 比如怎么学英语效率最高,要不要背单词 学英语我只有一个建议,就是学面试相关的英语视频,包括书籍,next官网,模拟面试视频 用三个月全力突破一下面试英语,先赚到钱,再继续深造英语 虽然我公告都写了,通过面试资料学英语,但是还是每天都有人问,【怎么背单词】【美剧学英语靠不靠谱】【词汇量多少才可以面试】 我也意识到免费群好像意义不大,收集知识有快感,但是真正的面试大家都觉得难而抵触 公告和我推荐的资料也不怎么看,需要设置个门槛,可能高效一些
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