i always see people with engineering managers, directors and architect titles with Masters degrees. how important is it for the career growth? i am planning and planning to pursue Masters (not that i needed it) but busy schedules and money factor and gap years always stop me. need to get some perspective from awesome folks here.
I have two from top 5 schools. Learned a lot. The degrees aren't important, but putting what I know into the field is.
It's just a bias that some people have. As the proud holder of a Master's Degree, I think it's irrelevant for hiring decisions. For personal relationships, it's something I appreciate having in common with someone and I tend to be attracted to people with more education. But as a hiring manager that's not even a part of the resume that registers. I'm in IT BTW.
Though about it a little more and it makes sense that leadership tends to have them because one thing that it does signal is ambition.
depends how good you are, if you are not a US citizen, or if specialty area is better fostered in academia. beyond those, the ROI is low IMO
I have a unique situation: my masters enabled me to get my role as the CIO had so many resumes on his desk that he divided into 2 piles: w and w/o. He didn’t even look at the ones with out.
The CIO is probably an idiot then... And who on earth is looking at paper resumes on desks? What are we in the 1800s?
Irrelevant for hiring
I've noticed almost no correlation between corporate leadership and degrees at most tech companies. Somewhat of an inverse relationship with PHds. Noone cares about Masters at all, I have one and literally no one has ever asked or cared. Unless you mean an MBA, which a lot of PMs have and some directors get *after* getting to leadership positions, but almost never before
I'm pursuing my MBA. Don't need it, but the VA is paying for it and I enjoy learning. In my field (SATCOM), once you hit about 10 years experience, you better have some graduate level degree or you'll keep getting stuck working at some 24/7 operations center.
I went and got my Masters and PHD. Looking back could have spent that time getting certifications that had more value to my role.
I'm starting to reach the halfway point of my MSIS program and it has payed off. I've been an Admin for the last 6 years and have certifications. What I've been able to take from the Masters program let me get a dev job starting in 2 weeks. I'm a good SA, but what I've taken from the program helped to refine and give me finesse to my scripts, db work, documentation, etc. It does suck and it's a big commitment, especially since I have twin 1 year olds at home. However, in the end, the benefits are worth it.
Nothing is more magical than putting on that green jacket for the first time. Bring you're A game, the greens are lightening but putt true.
green jacket is one thing but greens in jacket pocket is another.. i am looking at at least 350k and an year and a half loss.. worthed??
350K for masters????