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Can you elaborate slightly? I don't want to misinterpret you.

• UncleMeat 4y ago
  "Academics" usually means "university faculty or people working in research labs." These people tend to make low wages compared to typical industry positions. PhDs also don't tend to open too many doors in industry. At the major tech companies, they are roughly equivalent to 3-6 years of industry experience. They might make a resume more attractive, but you end up going through the same hiring process and largely working on the same stuff.
  • ethav0 4y ago
    But this is discluding those who work in academic research labs for major tech companies.
    • UncleMeat 4y ago
      This is only applicable to a very small subset of STEM academics and is definitely not the expected career outcome for a STEM PhD. There are indeed people with CS PhDs at Google and Microsoft whose primary job involves publishing papers rather than building applications. But that's not the norm.
    • tehsauce 4y ago
      The number of people working in academic research labs for major tech companies is probably on the order of 1% of all PhDs.