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Re:Ask HN: Industry job for 1+ year or try directly for grad... by codegeek on Monday June 10, 2013 @11:27AM (#5855028)
You can always go back to school. But nothing beats real industry experience specially if you can work at one of the top tech. companies. So I would say go get a job, work for a year or 2 and then decide if you still want to go back to school to continue research etc. You will have a much better idea.

On the other hand, if you feel that your chances of getting into one of the top. tech companies is not that great right now but you can get into a top grad school program, then go for the grad school. You will connect with top companies there.

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Re:Ask HN: Industry job for 1+ year or try directly for grad... by cybernoodles on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:29AM (#5879497)
Sorry. Forgot to mention, I have an offer from one of them. Would it be a bad idea to try to negotiate the "non-negotiable" starting salary since the stocks and signing bonus wouldn't be much use to me? (I need to be there for probably 4 or 5 years for all the bonus and stock stuff to be dispersed. I'd say about 25% of it would be dispersed before I went off to grad school without needing to be repaid.)
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