You're totally wrong because those companies are hiring academics fresh off the PhD in large numbers by dangling a lot of money, and if they had hired more earlier, they'd have avoided some of their stupidest, easy-to-avoid mistakes. (Though wouldn't solve the big thorny ones).
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I think this is one of those things that depends on the PhD. Are they hiring critical theorists? Or are they hiring bioinformatics types?
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I've seen hires across the board in social sciences, to be honest. They could do with some more critical theorists in some fields. Some of the stuff is surprisingly practical in its implications; what gets dunked on social media is the stupidest version (as one expects).
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I spent enough time two good history depts to get familiar with the non-Twitter version of critical theory, & in fact am now revisiting it in the evenings. I think the point of critical theory is to produce more criticism. They don't build things. They problematize.
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History scholars produce incredible work that's super practical and enormously time-consuming. Honestly, I feel like I'm cheating every-time I read their work. Policy, tech, business... Those are different things.
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I trained to be a historian of early Christianity. If you tried to produce something practical, you were looked down on. It was considered gauche & career death to try to connect w/ current events. The more obscure & pointless the work, the better your odds of winning with it.
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This was true for the entire Society of Biblical Literature, as well as the closely related American Academy of Religions guild. There were no rewards for "popularizers" & people who wanted to play the public intellectual. That way lie career suicide.
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YEP! Totally can see that happening rather than Antonio's suggestion, that it's a bunch of commenters holding court over society. It's a very very different incentive structure. That said, the skill-set and knowledge has super practical implications despite the career incentives.
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I always felt like library sciences were the best kept academic secret, in terms of practical stuff that could and totally should be used at Google and other places that deal with large volumes of cultural output.
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I teach in a school like that and have colleagues all over. Will not comment on Berkeley but they have always been mixed, professional and academic, and they are NOT applied CS. What, bubble sort in the real world? Nope. That'd suck. Most i-schools do something nobody else does.
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