No paper, no junior AI job: students flood ICLR/NeurIPS as hiring credentials
deepakns · x · 2026-09-20
Industry voices note that paper-milling isn't just academia: students with no professor affiliation are pushing through ICLR/NeurIPS/ICML submissions because top-conference papers have become de facto job credentials — you can't even land a junior AI role without one, distorting the purpose of these venues.
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