And yet everyone says they can’t find enough talent.
It can’t be both. PhDs can do more things this just become a professor, which does have a fixed number of spots.
It can’t be both. PhDs can do more things this just become a professor, which does have a fixed number of spots.
a vigorous and unending renegotiation between management, the agents of management, and people who "do it", in action.. advanced negotiating tactic - broadly give public opinion in mainstream media about "shortages" of whatever it is that you want more control over.. next, read carefully for market change and new entrants.. rewards, feast on newbs and do-gooders with special offers and limited term deals.. repeat..
But what is so specific about your needs that the candidate absolutely must have a CS degree -- and for which it simply will not suffice, as is nearly universally standard throughout the industry, to have "equivalent experience"?
A strange view of the world (even the world programming), to say the least.
In general I find people without a CD degree don't get why clean code is important. Since I'm on a project with tens of millions of lines of code (big, but I'm well aware that other projects are much bigger) clean code is important.
For example, a person with a PhD in history will probably be a good writer and researcher, but may need a couple of years training and experience before they're an amazing journalist, for example, and may only be OK at PR, even after a couple of years. If you want PR 'talent' then the history PhDs would not be very helpful.
A bio PhD would be amazing at many things, but would probably suck as a nurse.
So it's not just the raw talent, but also training and inclination.
I know people doing/with PhDs who are great theoreticians and good programmers but I also know people who (will) have all the creds in the world but simply know fuck all about actually making useful software/anything. Even in an industrial research context they'd be less useful than you'd think because they wouldn't be able to translate it into useful business applications.
Yes they have specific expertise in some field. But also they know how to do intendent research. This is the critical skill.