1) No time to learn anything properly.
- I spent the whole course behind schedule as the only help I could get was a single 15min window each day. 1 teacher even told me to stop scheduling meetings.
2) Have to teach yourself, so just teach yourself for free
3) Very few "partner companies"
-TDI has fewer than 20 actually active partners. And less than 5 will actually respond through the system. Also, if you are behind, you can't even access their limited number of partners.
4) These phd students can already get jobs, they just don't know it. TDI doesn't add any value to their candidacy.