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Meanwhile, the top tech firms aggressively recruit CS PhDs.
by tensor 14y ago
Meanwhile, the top tech firms aggressively recruit CS PhDs.
- modarts 14y agoWell, more power to them. They have the resources to train them up to a level where they'll be productive.
- tensor 14y agoOr perhaps this thread is full of obscene generalizations that are untrue. Hell, it even started off on the wrong foot by invoking "real world". All that term means is that you think your work is somehow relevant while the work of others, in this case PhDs, is not relevant. Parts of this community have a real problem with ego and unsubstantiated generalizations.
- crucifiction 14y agoNo, real world = in production for potentially a long time, iterated with customer feedback. phd/ms work = functional hacks that maybe a professor or the student ever looks at/codes against and that are eventually thrown away. except in very rare circumstances
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoYa, google is sucking up many of them. But don't tell parent, he doesn't get it and doesn't need to get it.
- foobarian 14y agoIn my experience, there are two kinds of CS PhDs, one which is more theory oriented and not very good at coding, and the other which is more systems oriented and tends to attract crack coders too bored to stay in industry.