DeepSeek Expands While Losing Core Talent
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-13
DeepSeek is facing pressure regarding its talent and organizational dynamics:
- Media reports indicate the company is rapidly expanding, hiring LLM researchers, product managers, an Agent Harness team, and even legal and HR staff.
- Simultaneously, at least 5 core R&D members have left. This includes a lead for R1 moving to ByteDance and an early lead moving to Tencent, with salaries reportedly reaching up to 6 million RMB.
- The report also notes that the V4 technical report explicitly documented 10 departures across four core technical tracks.
- The article mentions Huawei's "Genius Youth" interview mishap as a point of external interest, reflecting DeepSeek's notoriously rigorous screening and interview process.
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