# 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 -