Ask HN: Researcher vs. Engineer
After a Ph.D. in CS and three years of postdoc, I realized that academia is not for me. However I love doing research. Now I’ve to choose between begin an industrial researcher or an engineer.On the one hand, I’d like to be a researcher working on open problems but I’m afraid that industry won’t give me the freedom of publishing/working on interesting problems. On the other hand, engineers deal...