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I feel like PhDs in Computer Science should have better job prospects outside of Academia. Some jobs, like "research scientist", require PhDs. Look at companies like Lyft that are currently hiring "Research Scientist" (e.g. https://www.lyft.com/jobs/4014499002) where they require a M.S.or PhD.

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The majority of PhDs in computer science (around 2/3) do get jobs outside of academia [1]. Google might be the single biggest current hirer. I think that it's always been pretty common in this field though. Places like IBM and Bell Labs used to hire large numbers of PhDs back when they had big research groups. And at least in my PhD program, there was never an expectation that an academic job was the post-PhD career path, which I've heard people complain about in other fields. Plenty of our alumni worked in industrial research labs and it was pretty clear that that was one of the standard post-PhD options.

[1] Source: https://cra.org/resources/taulbee-survey/

I wonder if interviewers still ask you to do fizz buzz when you have a PhD?

They did ask me at ARM. I didn't know that was fizz buzz and I forgot if I got that question correctly. 8 months later they told me they are not hiring me. lol

They do (source: personal experience).

For a research position? In my experience (on my third position now) Research Scientist interviews in industry tend to mirror academic interviews. 60-90 minute job talk in front of the research group, 5 or 6 hour long one-on-ones with members of of the research group. No mention of fizz buzz in any of these interviews, and I've interviewed at Facebook, Adobe, etc.

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