My school offers a combined bachelors and masters program that would only take one extra year and $20k tuition for me to complete, would it be better to start working immediately after my bachelors Spring 2021, or do another summer internship that summer and graduate Spring 2022 with a masters? I like school and wouldnt mind staying for another year if that matters Do you get a higher TC as a new grad with a masters, and if so does it justify taking a year off for school? How much does a masters help out down the line? Any input would be appreciated!
I personally think it is worth it, esp if you want to do ML or more technical/ research heavy positions. There are certain positions that are quite difficult to get into without a masters. As for TC, you wont get higher TC right away, but the masters will eventually pay for itself
Could be worthwhile if you're interested in ML, NLP or computer vision. Otherwise, probably not
Depends on the type of work you want to do. For Dev work, a master's is not necessary. For ML work, a master's is desired. Is your degree in CS? My advice (given the little information you've shared) is graduate, get experience, assess your situation, go back to school for a master's if you think it'd advance your career.
Not worth it. For ML you need PhD. Who cares about that one year master trick. It doesn't magically change a person to be ML capable if one didn't do it in all 4 years why would 1 extra year work?
How did you break in to ML?
Do you have any math or stats background, or previous background in ML? If not, I'm curious how you pulled it off. I'd heard it's quite difficult/competitive to join an FB ML team after bootcamp because many people want to join one.
OP, make this a poll.
It doesn’t make sense from a short term TC standpoint. On the other hand, it’s probably the last chance you have to spend a year learning advanced CS.
If you hadn't in 4 yrs. Why another year magically makes it?
Also, OP - Do the Masters if you think it'll be the highlight of your resume.
Masters isn’t worth it in my opinion. You lose the 20k tuition and 150k that you could have been making in the year of you working on your masters. That’s a net loss of 170k, for a degree that nobody will care about if you can’t leetcode, lol.
That's true. Unless you want to learn some specific things which you couldn't in your bachelor's. Maybe do some research ?. If job is your first priority then master's will add no value or bump in your TC. You will just be losing 170K.