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I would like to say that I’ve known and worked with PhDs that were good and some that were totally useless. I wouldn’t trust it as a very useful signal for a jo
by goalieca 3y ago
I would like to say that I’ve known and worked with PhDs that were good and some that were totally useless. I wouldn’t trust it as a very useful signal for a job interview.
Programming is more of a trade and academic institutions barely teach the craft.
- jebarker 3y agoIn my experience the ones to avoid (at work and in life generally) are the folks with PhDs that bring it up all the time as if it's important and bestows upon them some special power.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoWhat's the point of getting a PhD if people don't call you DR?
- jebarker 3y agoI've always thought that was a bad strategy. Better to underpromise and overdeliver in life.
- jameshart 3y agoMost PhDs in this field are going to be in computer science. Computer science is not programming. Most of us are not hiring scientists. OPs point is that if you were a hospital, you would take a different stance on the relevance of a doctorate degree to your hiring criteria.
- pc86 3y agoThey'd probably take the same stance, that a PhD is useless, since in a hospital you want nursing staff, or medical doctors. PhDs are going to be about as good as JDs (honestly likely even less useful).
- jameshart 3y agoI think it should be obvious that when I said ‘doctorate degree’ in that context I meant an MD.
- nradov 3y agoA PhD mainly teaches you how to do research. If your particular job isn't research focused then it's unsurprising that usefulness isn't correlated with the degree.