Professors, of course, don't feel threatened by students so want them to be as good as possible. But in a company where I had the same pay and title as the AI researchers, just different fields of work, me applications, they research, they realized real quick that if I kept doing 2-3 times more tasks than they were doing I would get experience with everything they knew. Everybody wants to have their own little field where they are the boss. A newcomer that keeps putting their nose everywhere might not be very desirable. I knew what I was doing and I knew the risk I was running. I was hoping that the project manager would support me. The manager did not support me, I was out.