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That PhD-Industry Gap is more about the hiring managers' disconnects between Science and technical techniques such as ability to code etc. It's just as ridiculo
by jerryhuang100 13y ago
That PhD-Industry Gap is more about the hiring managers' disconnects between Science and technical techniques such as ability to code etc. It's just as ridiculous to request a linguistic scientist to be fluent in multiple foreign languages. I guess even Jeff Dean might have problem dealing with today's coding interview questions of regular software engineering jobs (or not, according to Jeff Dean facts). Those kind of hiring managers just do not have visions and would just miss the potentials of solving pioneering questions such as BigTable and MapReduce.
- morgante 13y agoAccurate, except it's not hiring managers who are making that miscalculation. By and large, hiring managers will see a PhD and be like "yay, give them an interview." Its the interview with an engineer where things break apart, because the engineer expects a PhD to be solving things the same way he would despite coming from totally different backgrounds. (This is born out in the OP's experience, as he got many interviews but few offers.) For once, hiring managers aren't to blame.