Since May, I work as a Qualitative UX Researcher at WhatsApp, and I wanted to share my interview experience and the resources I found useful during the preparation.
Since last November, I have been reflecting on my research career. I started my second postdoc, and I didn't want to stay postdoc for too long. I see postdoc as some sort of limbo. You gain experience, improve your publication record and try to check all the boxes necessary for the next step while staying on short-term contracts and most probably relocating to have international experience.
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Two weeks ago, I had an excellent opportunity to talk about my computer science career with young people from Kazakhstan interested in IT. I have shared my educational experience and the path that led me to my academic position. Talking about it and answering the questions, I have realised that it's not always clear what IT researchers do and how our work in Academia is different from the work in IT companies. I decided to write about it, but then I had an even better idea. As my experience can be biased and non-generalisable, I decided to run a little survey among my friends and colleagues who have both: academic and industrial experience in computer science. Next, I describe the main points that came up from our reflections.