Comment by mattip
4 years ago
A bit if a generalisation. For a different view: currently almost all the core devs for NumPy and SciPy (those are the ones I know personally) have doctorates.
4 years ago
A bit if a generalisation. For a different view: currently almost all the core devs for NumPy and SciPy (those are the ones I know personally) have doctorates.
I think that we can agree that if you want to become a generalist programmer, able to hop from random web startup to random web startup, then a PhD is probably not that useful. If however you want to become more of specialist, say being able to develop novel solutions to complex fluid dynamics problems then a PhD is very useful place to start.