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Discussion on: Would a PhD in IT help me in my career - even for non research positions?

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Oscar te Giffel

What do you want to do? I mainly do application development. So for me it isn’t useful. If I want to do algorithmic Optimization or work on performance then it would.

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Panda Quests

I'm thinking of what I do when I become older like 60 or so. It's unlikely that I will work as a developer. For that having a PhD may be helpful because it gives you opportunity to become an executive. That's at least my reasoning. I'm still figuring out whether it's sound or not