A PhD is only as good as the reputation of your advisor. If everybody knows your advisor then you won’t have a problem finding a job in academia. If your PhD is not backed by a prominent professor with a name, you’re going to have a very difficult time finding a good position. It may be a bit easier in CS, where universities have to compete with industry, compared to my field (physics/chemistry/materials science), but generally this is how academia works.
An easily obtainable PhD is generally not the right kind of signal.
A PhD is only as good as the reputation of your advisor. If everybody knows your advisor then you won’t have a problem finding a job in academia.
I would amend this to be “if everybody knows your advisor you’ll have FEWER problems finding a job in academia.” Some fields are very, very crowded (theoretical physics, for instance). For a very brief time, I was in a small team at a consulting company where 3 out of the 4 of us had done a science phd under a Nobel winner, and still ended up making major career transitions after half a decade of postdocs. Science is crowded, the more basic the research the more crowded the field. To first order, no one gets a job. If you are under a famous advisor you might move your odds up to 1⁄10 or 1⁄5 or something like that.
A PhD is only as good as the reputation of your advisor. If everybody knows your advisor then you won’t have a problem finding a job in academia. If your PhD is not backed by a prominent professor with a name, you’re going to have a very difficult time finding a good position. It may be a bit easier in CS, where universities have to compete with industry, compared to my field (physics/chemistry/materials science), but generally this is how academia works.
An easily obtainable PhD is generally not the right kind of signal.
I would amend this to be “if everybody knows your advisor you’ll have FEWER problems finding a job in academia.” Some fields are very, very crowded (theoretical physics, for instance). For a very brief time, I was in a small team at a consulting company where 3 out of the 4 of us had done a science phd under a Nobel winner, and still ended up making major career transitions after half a decade of postdocs. Science is crowded, the more basic the research the more crowded the field. To first order, no one gets a job. If you are under a famous advisor you might move your odds up to 1⁄10 or 1⁄5 or something like that.
email me with info about that company, OK?
Sounds like maybe MetaMed should inquire into working with them.