Quick question about research engineer/scientist roles at DeepMind (or Google Research). Would joining as a SWE and transferring internally be easier than joining externally? I have two machine learning publications currently, and a couple others that I'm submitting soon. It seems that the bar is quite high for external hires at Google Research, whereas potentially joining internally as a SWE, doing 20% projects, seems like it might be easier. Google wanted to hire me as a SWE a few years back (though I ended up going to another company), but did not get an interview when I applied for research scientist. My PhD is in theoretical math from a well-known university, and a few of my classmates are in Google Research now.