Comment by cortexio

I say, it doesnt matter, PhD or no PhD. Alot of the smartest people in the world have no PhD.

What i will say is that, i suspect PhD people to be people that create more theories around how to solve certain problems. And this. is very very very bad. It leads to design patters and generic solutions aka. lazy solutions that are just bloated and slow.

And this is a problem i see often with people who learned to code via school/university or some code academy like BS.

Design patterns are evil, and solutions should always be custom made towards the problem and be made as simple as possible. Only then you wont end up like microsoft or 95% of all developers.