[D] Ph.D. from a top Europe university, 10 papers at NeurIPS/ICML, ECML— 0 Interviews Big tech

I just wrapped up my CS Ph.D on anomaly detection. Here’s my profile in a nutshell:

Research: 8 publications, 5 first-author at top ML venues (ICML, NeurIPS, ECML).

2 A* ICML, NeurIPS (both first author)

Rest mid A* and some A.

Reviewer for ICLR, KDD, ICML etc.

Industry: Two working Student— one in ML one in deep learning.

Skills: Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, deep learning, classical ML, NLP, LLMs.

Education: M.Sc. top 10%,

I’m applying to research scientist and MLE roles at big tech (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.) but I’m not even getting callbacks. I’m based in Europe if that matters.

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Is my profile just not what they’re looking for?Would love any honest feedback.

Did I make the wrong choice with my research direction?