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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I've worked with a few devs with PhD's - two were absolutely horrible. One was ok.
You can get a phd in CS or even something like EE while completely being an academic, i.e. not having much real world applicable skill. It's not surprising nor should it even count as a black mark to say so. PhDs aren't *for* developing concrete skills.
Some phds are good programmers, but thats in spite of their phd, not because of it.
One of my first side jobs in college was writing code for CS grad students,
In many universities CS is taught like math, completely sans computers.