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EnrichedResearchReddit r/MachineLearningCommunityLive · 2d agoPublished 7/1/2026

Can’t even get a job interview despite 8 A* papers published [D]

I started my PhD in 2021, got 8 A* papers at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ECCV. I’ve been applying non-stop to top tech all around Europe and in all times I get rejected from the first pass. Which means I don’t even get shortlisted to a single interview. I’m working on hot topics like Di

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I started my PhD in 2021, got 8 A* papers at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ECCV. I’ve been applying non-stop to top tech all around Europe and in all times I get rejected from the first pass. Which means I don’t even get shortlisted to a single interview. I’m working on hot topics like Diffusion models. vision language and zero shot learning. Since I started PhD I was under the impression that your papers

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