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It's not particularly hard to understand. Some people love to work on deep, challenging problems that can take years to solve. This kind of problem solving does
by nvarsj 8y ago
It's not particularly hard to understand. Some people love to work on deep, challenging problems that can take years to solve. This kind of problem solving doesn't really exist in the tech industry. The vast majority of industry work is grunt work - the cutting edge would be implementing papers that poor graduate students publish. The rare places it does exist (e.g. Google/Microsoft research) generally require a PhD in the first place, and are very competitive roles.
- gattilorenz 8y agoPlus, in academia (at least in most countries of the EU, where you receive a salary during your PhD... I don't know how it works in other countries) you can focus on stimulating problems with little business value, and you can decide on your own your research topic, which is a kind of freedom I can't imagine in any industry. I'm more than willing to trade a significant amount of my salary for that freedom.