Degree Planning - From Bachelors to Doctorate

[Duneranger]

FAANG companies are very competitive, especially with all the recent downsizing in the tech industry. If FAANG is your goal, getting a degree from any online checkbox school may not be your best option. What type of position are you looking to get into specifically?

Anything IT related with. A 150k/year or more, I think I can make it with a PhD and my experience at SpaceX plus a reference from inside one of those companies, probably I have to go with an entry level position in the beginning, then move up ,  I'm not interested in social validation as much as I'm interested in high income, any position will do if it pay good even if it was in a startup

I don't think you understand what a PhD is or isn't. A PhD is an academic research degree which traditionally takes 5-7 years. Most PhDs don't even near 100k but that's not why they do it...

FAANG and IT types often only have a BS or BA + maaaaybe a MBA or tech related masters. A PhD (and certainly not one from a crackerjack box school) is likely going to be a non factor.

South College has a poor rep

Thanks for the feedback back , I wish those bureaucrats corporation and there HR see it that way , Any PhD even from a crack school will check the box if it RA,  degree doesn't tech you What you need for the job , but there's  two jobs that I'm interested in and both required a PhD plus 3-5 years of experience or master plus 8 -10 year's of experience


Having it is better than not having it

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Why do you feel you need a PhD? You can make that much in tech as a software engineer with just a BS in computer science. That is a harder salary to achieve in IT without years of management experience.

Are there specific roles you have looked at? That might give you a sense of the experience/education those people hold.

https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=77e1833804cef4f1

I’m from a tech Mecca (Seattle) and 99% of tech job postings are not like this. All of my tech friends clear 200k with a BS degree alone. You are hyperfocusing on a couple unique job posts that are NOT the norm.

Getting a crackjack box doctorate is not going to absolve their heavy experience requirement regardless. 

You are trying to run before you can walk. Get the BS and experience and then level up with a master eventually.

A PhD is a waste of time (I say this as someone currently in a doctoral program) but it’s your life.