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>Advice I received but ignored but is probably true: Doing a PhD actually decreases your chance of getting a job (especially in Computer Science)

Can you explain the Computer Science part?

Only reasons I can think of are "overqualified" and "X years in college with 0 real world experience".

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Its mostly what I hear from the postdocs in my lab. In Japan older companies seem to prefer to hire a more homogeneous work force.

Also in The Netherlands some tech companies (including one I interned at) were reprimanded for having a hiring process that discriminated against older applicants. The company I worked for had as requirement in their job ad "graduated less than 3 years ago".

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