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is REMOTE anywhere in the world or just the US?

Just go for the money and try having a peaceful state of mind. Wherever you go you will probably have other issues.

This is so common in the tech industry as we are just "resource"s.

Of course politics. It is key to promotion in many companies, most of the companies don't care about your technical skills or your work.

well, this is firing too, but in a polite way.

Any benchmarks against Presto?

latex -> pdf

I heard a lot of times that he wrote bulk of the NT kernel himself, is that really correct? I feel like a lot of people in his team are not given enough credit, and I also feel like he is being pushed as another tech hero.

Any benchmarks comparing CitusDB against Presto?

You can try working as a software engineer in some research project for a while, say at an industry research lab, then slowly make a transition to a research position (which may require a PhD degree).