I am currently working as a technical lead (technically, uber technical lead) at a Big Tech as Staff Eng. I joined the company as fresher and it has been a great ride.
I like many parts of the job of day-to-day technical leadership, which involves embodying deep technical details and ensuring high-quality technical decision making. But the job is increasingly migrating my doer and maker time away in favor of high-level decision making, prioritization discussions etc. Increasingly I am becoming manager like. Even though I am not a manager, I am spending a lot of time discussing priorities of others, resolving political/people blockers etc.
I believe it doesn’t have to be the way. In some parts of the company, even though rare, there are options to grow without becoming manager-like and focus on deep technical problems and developing novel solutions. But, almost always those areas seek people with PhDs and research background. Actually, 2 of my dream teams politely told me exactly that.
Anybody has been in this situation? I am considering pursuing PhD and I am unsure how I can do that realistically. There are some part-time PhD options but I am concerned about quality of the output I will manage to produce. There are some chances that I can align my PhD with my day job by 50%-60% (I work in a newly evolving space, some publication is likely possible). If any of you been through this situation, I will love to hear your thoughts…
submitted by /u/shakibahm
[link] [comments]
r/cscareerquestions I am currently working as a technical lead (technically, uber technical lead) at a Big Tech as Staff Eng. I joined the company as fresher and it has been a great ride. I like many parts of the job of day-to-day technical leadership, which involves embodying deep technical details and ensuring high-quality technical decision making. But the job is increasingly migrating my doer and maker time away in favor of high-level decision making, prioritization discussions etc. Increasingly I am becoming manager like. Even though I am not a manager, I am spending a lot of time discussing priorities of others, resolving political/people blockers etc. I believe it doesn’t have to be the way. In some parts of the company, even though rare, there are options to grow without becoming manager-like and focus on deep technical problems and developing novel solutions. But, almost always those areas seek people with PhDs and research background. Actually, 2 of my dream teams politely told me exactly that. Anybody has been in this situation? I am considering pursuing PhD and I am unsure how I can do that realistically. There are some part-time PhD options but I am concerned about quality of the output I will manage to produce. There are some chances that I can align my PhD with my day job by 50%-60% (I work in a newly evolving space, some publication is likely possible). If any of you been through this situation, I will love to hear your thoughts… submitted by /u/shakibahm [link] [comments]
I am currently working as a technical lead (technically, uber technical lead) at a Big Tech as Staff Eng. I joined the company as fresher and it has been a great ride.
I like many parts of the job of day-to-day technical leadership, which involves embodying deep technical details and ensuring high-quality technical decision making. But the job is increasingly migrating my doer and maker time away in favor of high-level decision making, prioritization discussions etc. Increasingly I am becoming manager like. Even though I am not a manager, I am spending a lot of time discussing priorities of others, resolving political/people blockers etc.
I believe it doesn’t have to be the way. In some parts of the company, even though rare, there are options to grow without becoming manager-like and focus on deep technical problems and developing novel solutions. But, almost always those areas seek people with PhDs and research background. Actually, 2 of my dream teams politely told me exactly that.
Anybody has been in this situation? I am considering pursuing PhD and I am unsure how I can do that realistically. There are some part-time PhD options but I am concerned about quality of the output I will manage to produce. There are some chances that I can align my PhD with my day job by 50%-60% (I work in a newly evolving space, some publication is likely possible). If any of you been through this situation, I will love to hear your thoughts…
submitted by /u/shakibahm
[link] [comments]