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I don't know about google - all the PL people I know who went to google no longer work on PL stuff, though I don't know if that's because of working at offices
by larsberg 14y ago
I don't know about google - all the PL people I know who went to google no longer work on PL stuff, though I don't know if that's because of working at offices where PL work is not supported rather than a lack of company-wide freedom.
From conversations with hiring managers at each, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, NVidia, and Adobe all have far more positions than they can fill for people with PhD-level VM/compiler writing skills. Heck, we can't turn out experienced _undergrads_ fast enough for their tastes. I assume there would also be stuff in embedded systems, particularly FPGA compiler-related, though I don't personally know hiring managers at the big firms in that area.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoGoogle has found PL PhDs very versatile I guess. Many of their top people are in PL, so it could also just be a top down hiring bias. I'd be weary taking just any job in VM/compilers, much of it is quite tedious and boring for a PhD. Intel used to have compiler groups filled with PhDs, Sun also. Them there are smaller companies like coverity.