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The big (and some even not-so-big) companies hire lots of PhDs -- roughly 8% of Google's employees have doctorates.
by santaclaus 9y ago
The big (and some even not-so-big) companies hire lots of PhDs -- roughly 8% of Google's employees have doctorates.
- umanwizard 9y agoThat doesn't imply that all those people needed a PhD for their job, though. I worked with multiple people at Amazon who had PhDs who were doing the exact same job I was.
- laichzeit0 9y agoSome people do their PhD while they're working. You might want to change career paths, e.g. specialize in some machine learning subfield. I'm pretty sure Doctors specialize further, whilst working, as well?
- dv_dt 9y agoGoogle is exceptional, and also in area of "growth capture". How about large companies in more mature industries? For example, do any of the telecom companies maintain the equivalent of Bell Labs today?
- toyg 9y agoGoogle is infamous for valuing academic achievement over practical skills in interviews, 8% is actually much lower than what previously reported - I guess they lowered their standards of late. If google is at 8%, everyone else of comparable size will probably be around 3% at best.