Particularly PhDs in Math, EE, or areas of CS that aren't engineering heavy. You hire them to solve problems that your engineers can't solve, not (just) to writ

Particularly PhDs in Math, EE, or areas of CS that aren't engineering heavy. You hire them to solve problems that your engineers can't solve, not (just) to write code. Masters degrees are a total crap shoot. I honestly ignore them entirely unless there's a thesis.