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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by robertAngst on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:32PM (#19507379)
>how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it.

Interesting, that was not the impression I had from 2 engineering professors at my local uni.

It sounded like I was going to be their assistant in studying their idea for up to 6 years.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by ianai on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:22PM (#19508203)
And in return he was going to toss you a bone somewhere along the way to something nobody’s done (because he’s the only one with this exact setup).
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