Not every Philosopher deserves the job they manage to land ... my experience is that they live to be vague, so make sure you know whether the philosopher is one

Not every Philosopher deserves the job they manage to land ... my experience is that they live to be vague, so make sure you know whether the philosopher is one of the logical philosophers during their interview. You don't want the waffling kind. One quick example ... my son was taking a 400-level IST class on Enterprise Architecture at Penn State from a very vague professor with a Philosophy degree. When asked to define Enterprise Architecture, he rambled on for half an hour before concluding that "you really can't define it ... kind of like Electrical Engineering". He was pretty flustered when one of the students read him the IEEE definition of Electrical Engineering. So this is an example of the type of person you don't want to hire. For an example of the type of Philosopher that can help you move forward, read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390914. A person like this is good with program logic, but is also trained to recognize false arguments, inconsistencies, etc when you're debating how to build something. Want to get political agendas and personal biases out of the way? Hire this guy!