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I'm genuinely curious, does the work you are hiring for really require a PhD? To put it a different way, if you and the current employees in your job all starte

• chrisseaton 4y ago
  It doesn't literally require a PhD (I'm not sure how that would even work - unless it was regulated by the government!) but it does require context on the state of the art in the field, and a network of peers to talk to. You get that from doing a PhD. If you can get it otherwise, then great, but that's pretty hard to do in practice. I've worked with people without even a high-school diploma in my compilers team, so I'm not snobby, just realistic that to succeed you need things and that a PhD is a great way to get them.
  • the_only_law 4y ago
    > I'm not sure how that would even work - unless it was regulated by the government! Easy, you just have your ATS automatically reject any resumes that don't appear to have a PhD
    • chrisseaton 4y ago
      Well that’s choosing to not hire people without a PhD, not that the work actually requires it. Also most people hiring compiler people aren’t doing it with an open application system. It’s a lot of word-of-mouth.