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Re:Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal by dachworker on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:25PM (#43245668)
Going from PhD, not even PostDoc with zero industry experience, to being Head of Department at SAP without connections is unlikely.
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Re:Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal by eunos on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#43245787)
He probably already started working for SAP during his PhD or even his PhD is a project from SAP itself.
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Re:Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal by guywithahat on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:55PM (#43248346)
I mean postdoc isn't necessarily a good thing, arguably it's a bad thing. You do postdocs while you wait for something better to come up.
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