Timeline for Is it wrong to leave Ph.D program after MS?
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | Davor | @Davidmh - unfortunately, even that really depends on the person doing the hiring. There are many insecure and bigoted people around who don't want to hire anyone more educated than themselves. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 16:54 | history | edited | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | Davidmh | @Davor it is the same, cost of opportunity. You spent a bunch of years in your ivory tower doing nothing really useful... but I bet they prefer a PhD to someone who has been doing nothing instead. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | Davor | @Davidmh - hell, it can even harm you. From personal experience, a lot of people in programming world don't have any degrees, or only graduate, and can be biased against PhDs as "snobs" or people concerned with only theoretical aspects of CompSci. Of course, no one is going to tell you this to your face as it would put them in literal legal trouble, but it can most certainly work against you when looking for work. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | Davidmh | @WoJ getting a PhD has an opportunity cost in experience for non research industry positions. It will not harm you per se, but many employers will count it as less experience that an equivalent time in industry. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | WoJ | @WetLabStudent: "... and can often be a hindrance". This completely depends on the country. Germany is an example where this is the other way round (same for other European and Asian countries) | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 17:22 | history | edited | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 17:14 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | Depends on what you mean by "may." Go for the PhD if you want to do research for the rest of your life - or you love research so much that you would be willing to lose thousands of dollars in opportunity cost by delaying getting a position in industry for a few years. However, if your main goal is a good job in industry, a PhD is rarely required, and can often be a hindrance. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 14:44 | history | edited | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 14:36 | history | answered | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |