To Ph.D. or not to Ph.D.?
Written by Emmanouil Koukoumidis on June 19, 2014.
Several people have been asking me about whether they should do a PhD or not. Sometimes they frame their question in a different way: "If you knew back then what you know now (already a couple years in the software industry), would you do it again?"
If you aspire to become a researcher or a university professor, then PhD is the way to go. If not, then this becomes a very hard question to answer as it depends on what skills you want to grow, and on how many sacrifices you are willing to make…