Research intern hiring season: everyone wants interns who are already PhD students
k7agar · x · 2026-10-14
A researcher quips about the odd annual ritual in AI hiring: every lab wants to hire a research intern, yet every lab insists the intern must already be a PhD student — a snapshot of how fierce competition for AI research talent has become.
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