Three Berkeley alumni share how they landed jobs at DeepMind, Cursor and Thinking Machines
miniapeur · x · 2026-09-30
Three UC Berkeley alumni now at Google DeepMind, Cursor, and Thinking Machines Lab sat down to discuss how they broke into frontier AI companies — internships, interviews, failed startups, and the big tech vs. startup tradeoff. The real takeaway isn't romanticizing frontier labs, but how these people think about taking risks and steering their own career paths. (Quoted with a joke: "step one: be a Berkeley alum.")
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