if you're an academic, the best time to bail out to industry was last year and the second best time is now
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3. Try to pick courses with content that transfers easily to industry. I did a pure ML sequence outside of the usual econometrics coursework and that was instrumental in swinging my first role.
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4. Remember that your job is escaping rather than graduating per se. Graduate if it will actually help; there are some job classes that want a PhD. But this is not the academic job market and credentials typically don't matter so much once you get established.
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5. Make friends outside of academia and ask them for advice. Many people will be happy to refer you; they're often heavily incentivized, in fact. Ask politely, but especially for work at large firms it is not a major lift.
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footnote industry is not safe per se, but most firms are happy with silence and do not demand active support of (whatever) and my hunch is that management's end goal remains making a profit case study:https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/13/tech/facebook-employee-fired-inaction-black-lives-matter-tweet/index.html …
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a small minority of employees are active culture warriors, but at most firms the bulk of employees outside HR want to ship code and feed their families without getting into turf wars silence remains an easy option regardless of whatever lintel painting is presented publicly.
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