A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014)

Re:A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014) by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:11AM (#9143930)

No, why would they bother? Once you are famous/established, no one cares what your credentials are...the PhD only gets the foot in door, and is a useless piece of paper otherwise beyond what you learnt while getting it (disclosure: a PhD whose piece of paper helped him get his foot in the door of a research lab).

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Re:A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014) by dagw on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:27AM (#9144012)

Many universities have rules limiting pay and promotion opportunities to people without PhDs.

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Re:A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014) by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:31AM (#9144025)

Maybe at the low end, but definitely not at the high end. As long as they can easily get a position at CMU or Stanford, the university isn't going to low ball them on pay.

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Re:A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014) by carbocation on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:40AM (#9144870)

Crazily, depending on field, it seems to be an issue even at the high end (see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9144856 ), though my comment is not specifically about CS.

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Re:A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014) by hessenwolf on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:13AM (#9143934)

It happened at my university (and I did some moonlighting contracting statistical analyses for some). The salary rules changed to motivate them.

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