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Oliver Müller is an astronomer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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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.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03554-2
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