I didn't said they were publishing independently, just they did not had any academic research experience. e.g. in FAANG, it's not hard to get into teams which p

I didn't said they were publishing independently, just they did not had any academic research experience. e.g. in FAANG, it's not hard to get into teams which publishes ML papers. Also, I know one guy who contacted one professor, and they collaborated and published few papers while doing full time engineering job.