Seconded. If you want ROI, work on an open source project that matches the work you want to do. I'll hire a high-profile civil O/S contributor before I will hire somebody with a PhD - and I work in a science shop. That should tell you something. Not everybody hires like Google does.
By all means do a PhD if that's what you want, but don't do it only because you want a tech sector job.
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Seconded. If you want ROI, work on an open source project that matches the work you want to do. I'll hire a high-profile civil O/S contributor before I will hire somebody with a PhD - and I work in a science shop. That should tell you something. Not everybody hires like Google does.
By all means do a PhD if that's what you want, but don't do it only because you want a tech sector job.