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by s1t5 2163 days ago
Another side of this that I've seen is people with PhDs in applied mathematics on a research team where a PhD is a hard requirement, spending all of their time passing dataframes around and convincing the sales team that the bar charts in the product are in fact correct.
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Have we been working on the same team? :P The worst part (or best part of the joke) is that with a mathematical PhD you're very ill equiped for a discussion with your typical sales rep.