Turning down a Google SWE offer for DeepMind's AI Residency: a 2-year retrospective
ManishGuptaMG1 · x · 2026-10-30
@vibespersecond recounts a career-defining choice: in 2024 he declined an on-campus Google SWE offer to pursue ML research, joining Google DeepMind India's Pre-Doctoral / AI Residency program. Over two years he worked on frontier models like Gemini and Veo, built a strong network, attended top ML conferences, and opened doors for his next career phase.
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