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		smm2000 on March 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search The problem is that Math PhDs tend to be arrogant and think that programming is for monkeys and they are above that. Code that they produce tends to be sub-par and under-tested (because they are above writing unit-tests). Source: worked with multiple Math PhDs. Have a few friends who are Math PhD working on some esoteric problems that I could not understand.

cmbaus on March 19, 2014 | [–]

I think you are drawing conclusions from a small sample size. I've had the exact opposite experience.

taybin on March 20, 2014 | [–]

They can do the algorithms, but they don't engineer, imho.

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