> According to the Academia Stack Exchange portal, it seems if you have a
> PhD, everybody immediately assumes you're going to be hellishly
> expensive to hire and summarily drops you from consideration.
>
> Unless you want to work in the finance industry, which only exists in
> London.

I work for a manufacturing company about 50 miles away from London, and 
we have quite a few PhDs working in our R&D team (physics and chemistry) 
and in more senior positions elesewhere in the company. We certainly 
wouldn't reject your application just for having a PhD.

My previous employer was much more R&D oriented and at least 50% of the 
staff had PhDs. Didn't you have some at your previous job too? Maybe the 
problem you highlight is unique to people with computer science PhDs?

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