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Google's Ph.D. Advantage
Frisky070802 writes "The New York Times reports on Google's success and desire in hiring Ph.D.'s (free registration required). It says that Google's willingness to let every employee spend 20% of his or her time on an independent project is a compelling motivator and that they estimate that Google has as many Ph.D.'s working for it as Microsoft, which is 30 times larger. How many other companies put "Ph.D. a plus" in their want ads?"
BS = (obvious)
PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper
On this page, they claim to have only 50 Pigeon Harvesting Dogs (PHDs). Now they're up to 700? Wow....
PHD = Permanent Head Damage
Once you get Ub3r Big and popular you need more JD's
From Monster.com;
"Ph.D. a plus" returned: Jobs 1 to 50 of 399
"MCSE a plus" returned: Jobs 1 to 50 of 503
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I spend a good 60-65% of my time at work doing my own projects (and, yesy, about 10-15% of that looking at Slashdot and sites like it). But, I work for the government, and there isn't much to do most of the time...
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I always thought Microsoft had more phd than Google. Wait, is it spelled fud or phd? See? Their phd has already phdded my fragile mind! Ah, phuk 'em.
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i'M wiTh yOu man... whaT i need PH.d 4?
Why should research training and experience - or even basic education - be necessary to develop on an inspired idea?
How many PHBs have PHDs?
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
You might want to get an extra PhD in "Punctuation and Capitalization in Modern Society".
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
So the telecom was hiring english majors?
Badum-ching
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Essentially, someone had a Ph.D but was looking for some sort of relatively menial but steady work so he could continue to eat.
In order to avoid being thrown out for being over-qualified and therefore requiring more pay / risk of leaving for better work, he changed his resume to the still truthful:
He was hired, and told that his soon-to-be employer "approved of hobbies."
- Neil Wehneman
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ARGH! I made a website for my mums boss last year. He was such an arsehole. He was convinced that computers were easy to use, programming is easy and all that crap. What topped it off, is despite computers being so easy, the only way he knew of opening outlook was to open internet explorer and click on the envelope at the top. i hate people.
Right, that's a pretty common mistake, and I see a lot of newbies make it. In fact, the actual relation is thus:
PhDs are supposedly experts: somebody who knows more and more about less and less until they eventually know everything there is to know about nothing.
If the g'vt kept the data on you that google does you'd better believe you'd be calling it "doing evil"
I believe Gmail came directly out of somone's "free time" - I'll try to find the article...
:)
Why don't you Google it?
Don't worry we woudn't hire you either....to damn bitchy
what?
But home manny MCSEs do they have?
This
...i'm looking for a job that says "college drop-out a plus" that doesn't involve cleaning solvents.
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The guys who have been around for 5 years are either psychotic or illiterate. Or both.
If they weren't when they got here, they are now.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Here at the United States of America Patent Office a vast proportion of the patent examiners have GEDs. It's by no means mandatory but it is almost expected.
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