google/meta vs famous AI Unicorn – AI research internship /u/Thebadwolf47 CSCQ protests reddit

Hi, I’ve been brooding over this for the past few weeks and haven’t yet reached a clear decision in my heart.

I had originally received an research internship offer from this Unicorn (world-wide famous in the field of AI) which I had gladly accepted.

However, a few weeks after accepting that offer, I received another offer from this FAANG (google/meta, won’t say which for anonymity) and now have to chose if I continue with the Unicorn or if I rescind (which I believe is still possible since the internship contract hasn’t been signed yet) and go with FAANG instead.

Here are the pros and cons I’ve thought about for now.

FAANG Pros:

– possibility to publish during the internship

– High possibility to do a PhD in the company right after the internship

– the company has published a lot of really, really high impact papers in the past few years and even recently

– More opportunities to work on interdisciplinary projects between the field of Vision, NLP and Robotics down-the-line

– Better international recognition, especially outside of AI.

Unicorn Pros:

– Possibility to join the team directly after the internship and do research without the PhD

– Possibility to participate in a growing company, so potentially higher impact to the company compared to FAANG which is so (too?) big to have a sizable impact.

– Team and especially direct supervisor seemed genuinely nice and friendly. work environment seemed nice also.

– Will probably work on more part of the ML stack like ML-ops/production deployment?

– Don’t have to rescind on the agreed upon deal (although the contract hasn’t been signed yet) – and since I am quite empathetic and try avoid confrontation in daily life, this is one of the biggest issues –

Both internship subjects are similar to each other and compensation is also similar so these are not deciding factors.

It it were you who would have to make the choice (and potentially RESCIND a deal with your friendly future internship supervisor (at the Unicorn that is), what would you really do?

Thanks for the help

Hi, I’ve been brooding over this for the past few weeks and haven’t yet reached a clear decision in my heart.

I had originally received an research internship offer from this Unicorn (world-wide famous in the field of AI) which I had gladly accepted.

However, a few weeks after accepting that offer, I received another offer from this FAANG (google/meta, won’t say which for anonymity) and now have to chose if I continue with the Unicorn or if I rescind (which I believe is still possible since the internship contract hasn’t been signed yet) and go with FAANG instead.

Here are the pros and cons I’ve thought about for now.

FAANG Pros:

– possibility to publish during the internship

– High possibility to do a PhD in the company right after the internship

– the company has published a lot of really, really high impact papers in the past few years and even recently

– More opportunities to work on interdisciplinary projects between the field of Vision, NLP and Robotics down-the-line

– Better international recognition, especially outside of AI.

Unicorn Pros:

– Possibility to join the team directly after the internship and do research without the PhD

– Possibility to participate in a growing company, so potentially higher impact to the company compared to FAANG which is so (too?) big to have a sizable impact.

– Team and especially direct supervisor seemed genuinely nice and friendly. work environment seemed nice also.

– Will probably work on more part of the ML stack like ML-ops/production deployment?

– Don’t have to rescind on the agreed upon deal (although the contract hasn’t been signed yet) – and since I am quite empathetic and try avoid confrontation in daily life, this is one of the biggest issues –

Both internship subjects are similar to each other and compensation is also similar so these are not deciding factors.

It it were you who would have to make the choice (and potentially RESCIND a deal with your friendly future internship supervisor (at the Unicorn that is), what would you really do?

Thanks for the help