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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by DeonPenny on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:00PM (#19504676)
Even in the case of google I know most of the people working in their AI program I know personally don't have an MS or PHD. As long as you can understand the work it's fine.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by ylmm on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:13PM (#19504821)
Sure, but what do they do? Looking at Google Brain for example, "research scientists" are exclusively people with doctorates, while "engineers" only require an MS or BS/BA.

The work is totally different; they're not substitutes.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by HeavenFox on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:20PM (#19504894)
I am not sure about Google, but when I was at Facebook, any Software Engineer with PhD can opt to use title Research Scientist instead. The purpose is mostly to make Green Card application easier.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by skj on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:49PM (#19505208)
At Google, Research Scientist and Software Engineer are different job ladders.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by ylmm on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:26PM (#19504956)
Oh that's so clever aha.

When some people FB Core Data Science came to campus, they made it pretty clear that they were looking for people with doctoral training for their research work (and not, for example, a Master's graduate who completed PhD-level coursework), so I guess it depends on the task/team.

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