{"id":995431,"date":"2026-02-27T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995431"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:12:33","slug":"indian-google-scientist-backs-openai-techie-who-quit-over-mental-health-we-get-paid-a-lot-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/indian-google-scientist-backs-openai-techie-who-quit-over-mental-health-we-get-paid-a-lot-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Google scientist backs OpenAI techie who quit over mental health: &#8216;We get paid a lot but&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google techie has reacted to an OpenAI employee quitting his job over burnout and declining mental health, saying that \u201coperating at the frontier is no joke\u201d. Raj Dabre, a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research Australia, was responding to a post by Hieu Pham, who recently announced that he had made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to leave OpenAI. Pham had earlier worked at xAI.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Pham described his time at both companies as a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d and said he had met \u201cthe best people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google techie has reacted to an OpenAI employee quitting his job over burnout and declining mental health, saying that \u201coperating at the frontier is no joke\u201d. Raj Dabre, a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research Australia, was responding to a post by Hieu Pham, who recently announced that he had made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to leave OpenAI. Pham had earlier worked at xAI. In his post, Pham described his time at both companies as a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d and said he had met \u201cthe best people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}