PhD Vs Startup Vs Big Company

• https://huyenchip.com/2018/10/08/career-advice-recent-cs-graduates.html

PhD Vs no PhD

• Arguments supporting PhD include:

  • You’ll have time to immerse yourself in research.
  • If you want to become a professor, you have to do a PhD.
  • Many top research labs such as DeepMind only interview PhD candidates.
  • You won’t be too poor as AI internships pay well.

• Arguments supporting no-PhD include:

  • There should be more people joining industry to bring research into production.
  • By the time you finish your PhD, what you learn might no longer be relevant.
  • Many professors have side gigs in the industry anyway so you can still work with them.
  • You won’t be poor for the next five years.

• Pursuing your passion, it turns out, is not legal in the US when you’re an international student.

Big Companies Vs Startups

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