tl dr; Not sure what to do after masters. Hey, Blind community! My first post here. :) So, I am currently finishing up my masters in the EU and confused where I would want myself to end up at. After my bachelors, I choose to work for a couple of years at a tech company (not FAANG, no leetcode required company) as a developer. The work was decent, but it bored my brains out. Finally, I got the courage to move to the EU and enroll in a masters program. I really loved my time here, learned how research works (I was from a no-name college with no chance of doing research in the undergrad), targetting to publish at a top conference next year. Would be graduating soon after my thesis. Now, from what I understand, without a PhD, it's hard to score a research-oriented position (Please correct me if I am wrong) and I don't want to end up in academia. I feel rather spending my time reading papers and trying to publish something, I should be doing leetcode. Your thoughts?
Definitely publish at least one research project, since it sounds like you're close. If it's in an in-demand CS field, it will help you get a great job.
But I'll still have to go through leetcode style questions right?
Of course. But if you were actually interested in your field, you should be motivated to work in it.
I have been doing some "work". I have been working with a professor who's moderately famous in his field, worked on a couple of projects, took graduate level courses and will start writing my thesis soon and might even be offered a PhD. The problem is that I might not get a research position without a PhD and am not sure if I would want to go back being a web developer again. :/
I have a MS in CS and I’ve been in research positions since I graduated. I am currently an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Just having a masters does not exclude you from research positions. Yoe:7
🙄 So you did all that schooling but have zero idea what your goal was?
Exactly, I resigned because I wanted to learn how to "research", cause I couldn't do that in my bachelor's. Now I am confused I couldn't get a dev job or a research job.