> big corp offered them a nice position in their innovation branch with much more freedom (and financial security) to work on their favourite problem I'm going

> big corp offered them a nice position in their innovation branch with much more freedom (and financial security) to work on their favourite problem I'm going to pick on Timnit Gebru, or at least what became more obvious with that debacle. Both the directional freedom and financial security are there, but part of your job is PR, and you don't have the same freedom a professor with tenure gets. If you have a paper that is critical of your employer or they don't like it for any reason, they can kill it. That's the deal.