> In fact, a doctorate is almost always a negative signal. I have never hired someone straight out of a doctorate. In my case they have always spectacularly fai

> In fact, a doctorate is almost always a negative signal. I have never hired someone straight out of a doctorate. In my case they have always spectacularly fail the coding part of the interview. A doctorate is a research degree. Hiring a newly minted doctorate just to be a code monkey would indeed be a mistake. Frankly, both parties would probably be unhappy with the job requirements (I certainly would have been).