Timeline for Can a former employer provide a useful recommendation for graduate admission to a science program?
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| Jan 26, 2023 at 3:15 | vote | accept | Janosh | ||
| Nov 16, 2016 at 20:41 | comment | added | Janosh |
@JeffL. I really had to laugh at ...assuming you weren't in an utterly unrelated area, like a chef in the Apple cafeteria, .... No, I wasn't but thanks for the warning. :)
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 18:57 | comment | added | Jeff | Even if you didn't do research and your boss wasn't a PhD, were you successful in a high-pressure environment? Were you forced to adapt to changing circumstances, be creative, work as a team, meet deadlines? I'm actually hard pressed to think of any way employment at a high-profile tech firm is not an unambiguous positive, assuming you weren't in an utterly unrelated area, like a chef in the Apple cafeteria, or sub-par at your job. You still need your academic ones, but this would be a great third or fourth letter. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 15:24 | comment | added | Jon Custer | What was your former supervisor's background? If they had a technical degree, perhaps even a PhD, that would change the balance significantly. I have written recommendation letters to graduate programs for folks, but I am a PhD and manage a research group at a national lab. You might be surprised at the backgrounds of managers at Apple. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 10:55 | answer | added | dimpol | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 10:00 | history | asked | Janosh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |