Timeline for Internships for PhD students (e.g. in data science or programming)
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:46 | vote | accept | Piotr Migdal | ||
| Jan 23, 2015 at 10:30 | comment | added | JeffE | @O.R.Mapper Nope. They're internships, hired through the company's internship programs. Research in many computing companies looks a lot like academic research in computer science departments, except that industry researchers aren't surrounded by graduate students, who are an enormous source of energy and ideas. So they use internships to attract graduate students over the summer, and those interns become research collaborators, just as they are in their home departments. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 8:08 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @JeffE: Granted, I have seen doctoral candidates do proglonged business trips for "exchanges" or "stays at other organisations" to see another research-oriented workplace beside their regular one. Usually, these are also meant to strengthen ties and further collaboration with the organisation one stays at, e.g. to promote the research of one's regular department, to serve as a liaison in a mutual project, or to draft a project proposal together with the other organisation for an upcoming mutual project. I presume those are such research internships and different terminologies are used. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 22:30 | comment | added | JeffE | @O.R.Mapper Actually, most of the internships in my list were held by PhD students who were well past the master's/qualifying exam hurdle. Late PhD students are more likely to get research internships, which can help immensely in getting a research job (either industry or academia) post-PhD. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 21:28 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @PiotrMigdal: At least in some European countries (and possibly only in some fields), that may be related to the circumstance that such internships are usually done at some point between starting one's studies and getting the Master's degree (or equivalent). Some majors even require such an internship of at least a few months as a mandatory precondition for graduating. Once you have that degree, you enter your work life, either in the industry, or in academia while being a doctoral candidate, i.e. you are kind of past the point where you do internships rather than getting a permanent job. | |
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 11:25 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | I heard it from my friends doing PhDs in US (and also googled some stuff for them). However, I hardly see anyone doing the same in Europe. But them I have no idea if the companies are not interested (e.g. extra cost, no established contacts), no such culture in Europe (not that unlikely) or they are discouraged/not allowed (I'm not even sure if at my institute I can, but they are pretty open, so I will try). | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 1:24 | history | answered | JeffE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |