I'm a final year computer science student, currently wondering if I should do a PhD. Professors told me that it is useful to the career, suits my interest, and it is better done earlier than later.
I'm interested in theories and I often read books and articles about them. However, I'm not sure if I am capable of producing quality research as I have no experience doing that. Also, from others comment on HN, it seems that research today is publish a lot -> optimize for H index -> get tenure and write grant proposals, which may not be something I would enjoy/capable of doing... I consider doing a grad study purely for the pursuit of knowledge, so I wonder if it would be better to just get a developer job instead of doing a grad study...
I'm interested in theories and I often read books and articles about them. However, I'm not sure if I am capable of producing quality research as I have no experience doing that. Also, from others comment on HN, it seems that research today is publish a lot -> optimize for H index -> get tenure and write grant proposals, which may not be something I would enjoy/capable of doing... I consider doing a grad study purely for the pursuit of knowledge, so I wonder if it would be better to just get a developer job instead of doing a grad study...