I've often struggled with what "real world experience" is and how a PhD isn't that. A PhD in science is dominated by doing research every day. PhDs often go int

I've often struggled with what "real world experience" is and how a PhD isn't that. A PhD in science is dominated by doing research every day. PhDs often go into industry positions post phd because of their research experience. I think real world experience ends up just meaning "experience with our specific hardware/software/stack/whatever" and that isn't really anything special at that point.