Careers of newly graduated CS PhDs in Google?
Oct 30, 2019
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A lot of people go to Google to learn things and gain advantages for the next hop of their careers. But is joining Google alone enough?
In my current company over half of my colleagues are PhD. We do a lot of challenging things and I feel I'm learning new things every day. Unfortunately for some organizational reason many of us have to find a new job.
So I got an offer from Google, and matched a team where only one colleague of my level has a PhD. The others are bachelors with a lot more industry experience than I have. Does that mean the skills of a PhD are not really needed in such a team? Is that a good sign for career development?
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That doesn't mean it's not interesting or innovative or smart. As far as "skills of phd" is concerned -- My impression is that there is nothing "unique" about skills in PhDs in industry that can't be done by any guy with strong CS background and enough experience and exposure. (Exceptions exist, but very rare) Degrees are just piece of paper.
So perhaps talk more with you potential team and learn more beyond what piece of paper they hold?
You never want to be the smartest person in the room.