[elemeno]

The parent comment should probably be read as 'research and development' - working for IBM's research arm, Microsoft Research etc.

[tanzam75]

And I read it as exactly that.

I was pointing out that the PhD is useful for "research", but not for research "and development."

[scott_s]

In my experience, the people who can do the D are better at the R.

[tanzam75]

> In my experience, the people who can do the D are better at the R.

Agreed. But less so, the other way around.

Which is why development jobs don't reward the PhD enough to pay for the opportunity cost. It counts as 6 years of industry experience -- which you could've gotten in 6 years of working in industry.