> getting a good job at Google is just as competitive as getting a tenure-track position. From my experience this is not true. I personally know about 10 class

> getting a good job at Google is just as competitive as getting a tenure-track position. From my experience this is not true. I personally know about 10 classmates who either dropped out of the (pure math) PhD or left academia immediately afterwards and ended up at FAANG as generic SWE. They all said that a few months of DS and alg prep was enough.