Same here. What I noticed PhD people are more good candidate for research but not coding/finishing product. They put all their career in research tackling compl

Same here. What I noticed PhD people are more good candidate for research but not coding/finishing product. They put all their career in research tackling completely different set of problems. Most of time they are not aware of industry tools and applications like VCS, coding-styles etc and lack attitude to know context and more focused on (re)inventing something. On other side engineer guys good to finish product, learn many half-assd tools and tacking different set of problems every day. This builds good intuition. But most of time they lack concept and they berate academics (at least in their early career days) Now this is not universally applicable to everyone and may be wrong. I have seen some good people who rock both worlds.