PhD in Distributed Systems industry scope

Jun 16, 2019 10 Comments

What benefits will I have if I get a PhD in Distributed Systems (vs a MS CS with focus on Computer Systems) if I want to remain in the industry (no interest in going into academia)? Looks like only research areas that are hot today are ML/DS/AI related.

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    Humphrey G

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    Humphrey G
    You shouldn’t get a PhD if you want to remain in the industry.
    Jun 16, 2019 0
  • BitGo / Eng
    XpoH71

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     XpoH71
    Ms/phd in ML focus = big cash
    Jun 16, 2019 2
  • Google
    someone10

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    someone10
    PhD teaches certain kinds of skills to go deep in a problem space. You can learn that in industry as well but it is harder due to shorter time horizons
    Jun 16, 2019 3
    • Amazon / Eng
      batou

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       batou
      i found the meaning of "time horizons" on investopedia, but unsure what you mean here
      Jun 16, 2019
    • Google
      someone10

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      What I mean to say is that you can dwell on a problem, explore, measure, read many papers, discuss etc for months or even years in a PhD. In a job, typically a company expects some results in a quarter or a few quarters from an engineer. So deep exploration is not necessarily easy.
      Jun 17, 2019
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    bigbossvp

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     bigbossvp
    I received my PhD in early 2000s and I feel almost zero return on it except people from my 🐎 sh*t company calling me Dr. I concur with the previous commentor that it is great if you want to move to academia.
    Jun 16, 2019 0
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    BcQb23

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     BcQb23
    Do you like research, work on open-ended problem, and write papers? What interests you about distributed system? PhD is not for everyone...
    Jun 16, 2019 0