Ask HN: Any PhDs from non-CS fields switch into Development?

Re:Ask HN: Any PhDs from non-CS fields switch into Development? by streptomycin on Monday July 28, 2014 @03:40PM (#8098916)

Depends how "unrelated". I have friends with non-CS PhDs who work as programmers, but they were all doing largely computational science.

Ultimately if someone has the right skills, they can get a programming job. If they don't have the right skills but are smart enough, they can acquire the skills needed to get a job in a reasonable amount of time (months, not years). But employers won't just assume that someone with a completely unrelated PhD will be able to pick up programming on the fly.

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Re:Ask HN: Any PhDs from non-CS fields switch into Development? by will_work4tears on Monday July 28, 2014 @09:26PM (#8100258)

It's pretty unrelated - Virology, but she's pretty sharp and was always mathmatically inclined. More so than me, and I've been pretty successful in the programming 'field' (though different versions of "success" are stressed).

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