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Re:Why can't you find a job with a Stanford computer science... by kjs3 on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @06:06AM (#8035587)
It's not even "over qualified". Part of being a PhD is (generally) picking some narrow, well defined niche in the field and devoting yourself to it for a couple of years. Unfortunately, that can leave you woefully under qualified at anything in the field other than that niche.

See: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

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