Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application

Post by tjr » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

bkamapantula wrote: post #38

zura wrote: post #27

I'm still waiting for a REMOTE PhD position :)

I doubt if it would happen at all. I'm a full time Ph.D. student. You might, of course, know that professors interact with the students very often (except if the professor is super busy always). I interact with mine almost every day. I do work with couple of collaborators in different countries. That is because my advisor knows them in-person before deciding to collaborate. I work with lab colleagues frequently. Remo…

Post by 8_hours_ago » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

segmondy wrote: post #32

tjr wrote: post #2

An offer letter from Google or YCombinator (where you are the tech co-founder) which serves as evidence that you passed a challenging programming interview at Google, or that YCombinator believed you would be successful at developing your company product. Interesting. Because I have no intention of moving to a Google or YCombinator location, I never applied to either, but this makes me wonder if merely having been of…

Of course. I have no intention of moving to Cali, but one thing I do plan to do when I go to vacation West next year is to apply to Google, possibly Facebook or/and Amazon. If I get the offer letter, I can frame it and use it as negotiating tactic here in the midwest. It's almost as good as saying "I worked at Google"

Post by pgbovine » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

tjr wrote: post #41

bkamapantula wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt if it would happen at all. I'm a full time Ph.D. student. You might, of course, know that professors interact with the students very often (except if the professor is super busy always). I interact with mine almost every day. I do work with couple of collaborators in different countries. That is because my advisor knows them in-person before deciding to collaborate. I work with lab colleagues frequently. Remo…

What about it exactly is challenging? How is doing computer science research (probably what many people here would do; I don't know what your research field is) with a team of remote individuals harder than doing software development with a team of remote individuals?

Post by pgbovine » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

bolu wrote: post #24

This reminds me of YC's "Apply without an idea" experiment. Both experiments seem to arise from a innovator's insight that a whole class of otherwise highly qualified candidates self select out because of a self perception that they don't "fit the mold". This is especially true of YC, where there are so many articles every day that tell the story of a founder who "saw a problem, and set off on this quest to solve it"…

Post by jrs99 » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

jchendy wrote: post #42

jrs99 wrote: post #12

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i'm sure that's extremely rare though. maybe like 1 person per year may have no idea what coding is and get admitted to a program for CS.

It completely depends on what area you're going into. Software engineering, systems, and AI students obviously need significant coding experience. HCI and theory (ie math), not as much.