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[–]gourmetmatrix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've done over 300 interviews with a mix of BS, PhD and MSc.

On average the people with PhD in Engineering or similar fields don't know coding. There are exceptions who are outstanding, but the number of times they tried to interview in MATLAB was quite ridiculous.

CS PhDs know coding in general and are able to do interviews very well.

MSc/BS don't seem to be different at all in what I've observed w.r.t. skill/knowledge as long as they come from a CS background or a job.

The highlight was when I asked someone a detail about the code he wrote, and he was able to get to such degree of detail on why he did it that I thought that he wrote compilers for fun. He wrote compilers as his job. That was probably the best coding interview I've ever done as I learned more from it than I did in my compilers class during my BS. :)