---- David > ... which is probably why I dont look to PhD's when I'm looking for > a good > software person. ---- Daniela Well, that's a surprising view for me.
( I don't REQUIRE a Phd when I look for a good developer, but nor do I disqualify people because they have one. I am taking my good developers wherever I find them. ) -------------------------------------------- -- David I never said I disqualify people for having a PhD but out of the hundreds of software developers I've interviewed and dozens I've been responsible for hiring, not a single one would I say having a PhD in any way was a significant positive contribution to their qualifications or rationale for hiring them. In many (but not all) cases I found a direct disconnect between PhD style education in computer science and between being able to actually write good software. ------------------- -- Daniela If they weren't any software academics, there would be no software professors, and if there are no software professors, there will be no software students. If there are no students, there is no critical mass. Etc. Etc. Etc. The vicious circle. ------------------------------------------------ --- David Disagree Some of the greatest software developers in the world have had no formal education. Many more have had formal education in non-software fields. I'm not opposed to Academia, but I do not agree its necessarily the best way to produce good Software developers, and by no means the only way. Improving it would be nice though. I would LOVE it if having a PhD in Computer Science actually meant you could write good quality software. But in my experience it does not. ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee [email protected] http://www.xmlsh.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
