This was the single worst thing about working at Google. Every PhD thinks they're smarter than having to do the actual work. Sometimes you just have to do the fucking work.
I wonder what goes wrong.
Now you're being asked to move buttons around a page and debating how rounded the corners should be and endlessly discussing about what kind of filters you should support and the app spends 3 seconds on startup loading 500mb of js libraries.
You can understand the mismatch - even though the latter of these two is how you make a product better! a company of 200 people making bold, sweeping changes results in a mess. a company of 200 people grinding away the finest of small changes results in a product
I've personally known a few PhDs that get them for the title, and they were lazy in the first place. There was this one guy I worked for who got a PhD in the easiest thing he could rationalize and targeted acquiring it from the lowest bar to entry. Only so he could say he had a PhD because, and this is what he told me: nobody will ask me what my PhD is in because they will assume it's related to my line of work (cyber security). I doubt most PhDs have this line of thinking, but there are a few outliers, clearly.
I don’t know, even with just an undergraduate degree I’m sure there are jobs that are spreadsheet manipulation. You could make the same case there?