Oliver Müller’s brief tenure at the technology giant taught him that many skills acquired in academia are highly valued.
A stint working at Google showed Olivier Müller how to make the right choices for himself rather than caring too much what others think.In the summer, I left Google after working there as an analyst for a year. After my departure, I posted a series of tweets sharing some of my reflections on working in the private sector. The tweets went viral among academics — it seems many were interested in what I was taking back with me to the university world.
At the end of July, I left Google to start another postdoc at EPFL. One of the main reasons I decided to return to academia was a desire to regain the independence I had lost in the private sector. There, ultimately, you are hired to do a job, and in most cases your manager or more-senior personnel define what you do and how you do it. This can leave you with work that you are simply not excited about.
The system was fixed only after this happened and the person revealed the increased pressure and workload. Now the role is 80% of a job. The lesson here is: do a good job, but if it’s too much to handle, speak out instead of trying to endure it, especially in times of crisis. Only in this way can systemic problems be resolved.This is true in both the private sector and in academia.
When I rejoined EPFL, I almost apologized to a senior professor, saying I was back and ready to start working at the institute again. He wasn’t even aware that I had been gone for a year. I worried so much about what colleagues at the institute would think of me, but people come and go all the time.I always thought that as an astronomer I’d have a hard time finding a job outside a university.
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