After having an offer at work, I hesitated... (From beiyou Forum)

When I waited for school news, I found a job and got some offer: Microsoft, Baidu, and HP.

I was trying to find a job and leave a retreat for myself, but I thought about it carefully. Maybe reading PhD is my retreat.

At present, the application for schools is not very powerful, and it is despised by the top 10 three dream schools. Top 50 and

In the top 80, the two schools provided the offer, and there was no news from the middle schools. Maybe it is because the application is not

I started to think about the overall motivation for applying for a PhD. There is no need to hide it. To put it bluntly, there are three points:

1) eager for life in the United States

2) eager to have the background of an American University

3) reading the U.S. master database is too expensive and I am already a master.

4) eager for the background of American University PhD to open up the development space for my future development, us dream...

5) eager for academic achievements to take the next level

After careful analysis, we can find that the factors that make up my motivation to go abroad are mainly seeking for a better quality of life. They are not obsessed with pure academic research or are determined to make significant contributions to scientific progress. To put it
Another way, I don't want to be a professor but want to enter the industry. In this case, isn't PhD the best way to achieve these goals for me?

It takes at least five years to read PhD, while the PhD of a prestigious university takes longer to graduate. My mentor graduated from PhD in Wisconsin Madison during my internship. She said she was reading PhD in computer systems in Wisconsin.
The average is 10 years of graduation, and most of MIT's employees are over 6 years on average. In this way, after graduating from a school worth reading PhD, the age is about 28-30. At this time, I entered the industry to find a job and
Is it advantageous? I think the advantage is not obvious when I want to work in Microsoft's core Department for five years, Baidu's core Department for five years, or HP's Research Institute for five years. One is using theory for five years, and the other is
I have analyzed the theory for five years, and each has its own merits. However, the disadvantage of PhD is obvious, and the age is poor !, I can earn almost twice the annual salary of most fellowship jobs in these regions.

What if I look for a job abroad? PhD must have a high starting salary, right? Undoubtedly, it is completely correct. However, local teams like Microsoft and HP have been
Transferred has the opportunity to go to the U.S. headquarters. This is also the case for internships. In the employment market there, employees with work experience or working with past salaries are not low, and
The company will also help you with all the visa procedures and so on... If you are eager for the background of a prestigious school, you can read a master from a prestigious school at your own expense. The difficulty should be very low.

Don't talk about money or anything else? Life, friends, feelings? I cannot find the advantage of reading PhD in this aspect. In a word, the industry is dedicated to ability and vitality. I have seen a lot of scenes in which the PhD graduates from an American famous University and the local staff of tianchao work together. There is no difference at all...

Where is PhD going? There is no doubt that scientific research and academics. If you want to engage in academic research and enter the university as a professor, then PhD is undoubtedly the best choice.

Haha, a lot of things. To be honest, some insights are only available after understanding, seeing, and trying.

Each step of your choice should satisfy your career planning, rather than simply satisfying your curiosity and vanity.

I am also confused. What do you think? Haha