CS PhD vs Industry

May 16, 2021 11 Comments

Go for Stanford/MIT CS PhD or go straight to industry to make the most $$$ in the long run? Why?

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  • Make life decisions on forums or go live your life on your terms.
    May 16, 2021 0
  • Apple / Eng
    mazonjakkd

    Go to company page Apple Eng

     mazonjakkd
    Asking this makes me question whether you actually got into Stanford/MIT.
    May 16, 2021 4
    • Amazon
      lpcsz

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      lpcsz
      PhD from any school won’t pay off money-wise.
      May 23, 2021
    • New
      fGkt78

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      fGkt78
      Although I basically had never heard of CS before my PhD, so I would not have gotten into it without doing the PhD.
      May 23, 2021
  • Rakuten / R&D
    devlopr

    Go to company page Rakuten R&D

     devlopr
    If you've second thoughts about PhD, probably don't go for it.
    May 16, 2021 0
  • New
    jimbo88

    New

    jimbo88
    Doing a PHD to eventually get a non-research industry job is idiotic. The only job for which PhD is an absolute necessity is a professorship - unless you want to become a professor, don’t bother.
    May 16, 2021 1
  • Intel
    PEch61

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    PEch61
    MIT in many ways is... properly rated but overly put on a pedestal.

    The single most important thing in grad school is publishing. If you have one paper in a mediocre journal you're not a hot shot, even with MIT written on your sheet of paper.

    I got into MIT and rejected THEM. Prospects for publishing where I went were higher because of less course requirements. And I produced.

    Do it if you enjoy research. And if you do enjoy it that much, you should never really go into industry anyway.
    May 16, 2021 0