Bell Labs in its heyday was still reputed to be publish or perish, or patent or perish, without any tenure system either. At my university, we had a previous Be

Bell Labs in its heyday was still reputed to be publish or perish, or patent or perish, without any tenure system either. At my university, we had a previous Bell Labs researcher that said he had been pushed out. As a corporate researcher, there is still high pressure to output something.