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

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huncyrus

Absolutely. You will have a better position for a bunch of place. I know a few people with PhD in IT, one working as Project Manager nowadays, the other is currently working as architect w/ some cloud stuff.

Most of the ppl who has PhD for IT has a different perspective in this job type. Many place really like them and always considered as more expert than anyone else with just uni or without papers.

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Interesting.....

Thanks for replying

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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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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