I met another guy like this (who happened to be Indian too), when I was interning at a big 3-letter named company. So, what are you focusing on for your grad s

I met another guy like this (who happened to be Indian too), when I was interning at a big 3-letter named company. So, what are you focusing on for your grad studies? "Quantum computing" Oh neat, what exactly are you doing? "Some quantum stuff, blah blah blah" I don't remember the exact answer, it was a while ago. But it was clearly just some buzz words that did not contain any substance; and that he had no idea what was going on. There is also another Indian guy at the company I presently work for. Fresh grad with an MS degree. We were writing a small internal web service, and he was all over the place about how "we must use a NoSQL data store", because "scalability", and "flexible and dynamic, no schema" etc. Thankfully, the final call was not his, and we went with a plain RDBMS -- which naturally suited our purpose pretty well. We had no need for NoSQL just for the sake of using it. Disclaimer, I hold an MS degree. I was privileged enough to get admitted to a top Canadian school with an excellent CS program. Almost all the people I met during my stay there were brilliant, and definitely did not go back to grad school because they were not able to get a job. Many of them did internships at top companies; and a couple of them even came back from the industry 20+ years later, because they wanted to work on something different. So definitely do not clump all MS/PhD degree holders together. I think the author here is making the classic correlation vs causation mistake.