What will be the starting salary for top talent coming out with a deep learning experience from Stanford/Berkeley/CMU with a PhD in CS and handful of first author publications in NIPS/ICLR/CVPR etc? Assuming you go to (1) university research, (2) industry research (deep mind/FAIR), (3) industry development?
I would go to a place with the best learning experience, but that is jmho. It’s hard to expect to come out of the gate with an amazing salary bc it’s relative to what city your career would start
Microsoft Research, Google Research, FAIR (maybe 1 or 2 more). Nobody in the industry has the kind of use cases and data (and talent) to build your skills further. However unglamorous these sound, start your post PhD industry career at these places. TC 180-220K in Bay area. You'll have hot-startup-X pitch some insane position, be wary. If you're interested in academia, I wouldn't know how to answer. (Not rhethorical)
I agree to some extent, but you definitely want to be paired with a good mentor coming out of the gate. The salaries come. What I see as a manager, even the top schools aren’t preparing even PhDs for data science in the real world. However, academia could be more political - and usually is- than the business world
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I think the starting is same for most ML folks. It's just that their career trajectory is different in few years.
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Does Phd degree matter for career trajectory?
If you manage your career well and choose a good first job, you will make 200k TC and some 2-3 years later you can get 500k.
I belong to the group op posted about. I am three years out of Phd and work doing pure basic research work. TC starting was 300k and now reached 550k. I haven’t even started doing the whole counter offer thing yet. Some of my peers make way more.
Have skillful you feel in comparison to your peers?
Compared to peers I would rate myself honestly in the top 30% or so based on publication track record, citations, visibility in research communities etc. Where I have a differentiating factor is that I am also good at engineering practices and writing production quality code in C++ for embedded or even distributed systems. That is especially appreciated in industrial research. Theory wise I am naturally far behind some of the Fields medal winners I sit in the same hallway with. Irrespective of my salary I feel like an imposter every day of my life. Due to current hype and synchronicity I have a very inflated salary for sure.
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