Look outside CS, and in CS outside the ‘big tech employs all the engineers’ era.
Of course if you can get a 400k software engineering job, you’re going to choose it over a 140k research job in your field.
Of course if you can get a 400k software engineering job, you’re going to choose it over a 140k research job in your field.
My coworkers are all PhDs, people whose PhDs were in topics like QCD working on completely unrelated computational physics, various biology, chemistry PhDs doing experimental physics, astronomy etc (and vice versa). I am considered strange for still working on the same topic as my PhD.