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Fog Creek values a PhD at 1 year of experience. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html
by phamilton 13y ago
Fog Creek values a PhD at 1 year of experience. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html
- beambot 13y agoWhich makes sense in their domain. If you look at the skills they actually care about: software development/programming, user interface design, managing software teams, software testing using scripting/programming tools, marketing software, selling software, system administration. A PhD would (likely) only have done development-programming and testing -- and only (at best) about half-time, since so much of their other responsibilities are coursework, writing, teaching, etc.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoFog Creek will never be google, either.
- morgante 13y agoNor will the vast majority of companies writing software. Hence why PhDs can't get jobs. There are way more of them than companies that actually need their expertise.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI haven't known any CS phD with job finding issues, beyond the standard..."would I be bored to death doing this job or not."