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My wife is pursuing Ph.D is in media and communications. She has almost zero experience in programming. She wants to explore the opportunity of changing career to tech (as apparently there is very little academics roles for PhD and they are all low paid and competitive). How long does it take for her to learn and how realistic it is to aim for top companies such as @google? She is on her first year of PhD so she probably has time to learn until graduation. Also, if someone can share similar experience from ppl u know, it would be great.
Why? Does the world not need any other skills? If you stand out in other fields and face no competition or artificial metrics like ability to leetcode, you'll have a more satisfying career. I think tech career would become commodity in the next decade.
How about sql then start as pm or tpm?
Positions where PhD calibre people get to rub shoulders with people who didn't make the cut but had tech degrees.
This is how you know we're in a bubble
Going to be a bit humbling to start over after finishing an ego Ph.D
Training your wife will be a true test of your marriage. If she's bright she'll climb to the top wherever she goes.
Human Resource Machine is a mobile puzzle game which teaches assembly programming, that could be a start
I absolutely love that game!
Drop out of PhD program. Sounds like you both think it's a waste of time...
I don't understand why you feel that she must be coding in order to work in tech. At PhD level, she should've acquired enough research skills (be it qual or quant). She should consider expanding into a social science researcher role at social media companies or AI, or transition to UX research.
If you are a tech guy, start by teaching her?
Yes. I just dont how how long it is going to take and if anyone shares the same route as I do
I think she can take some LinkedIn or pluralsight courses to see how much she likes. If would not aim for Google or Facebook at first. I rather would have her with a QA job and after 2-3 years reassess if she is ok or wants more. Otherwise the bar is too high for somebody that is not even technical. My 2cents