Is Georgia Tech OMSCS worth it?
Background: I will be finishing up my undergrad in two weeks from a no-name school in the US. I have just accepted an offer from Google as an SWE. After about a year of just working to get comfortable with my job, I was considering getting my masters. I was looking for one that's cheap, online, and from a good school and OMSCS at GTech seems like the best with those three criteria and I have seen a lot of people mention it on blind. Would getting this masters degree help me in: 1. Promotion/Leveling for external hiring 2. TC #tech #masters #omscs #school #google
It is only worthy if you consume the content of most of the courses and put them in practice in your job.
It’s a good program and fun. Take your time and don’t be in a rush.
It's good but make sure you stay close to the user needs and learn how to poke holes and push back the right things to product and business people as you dive in. Senior levels are about knowing the right way to lead , team forming and the right questions to ask to drive decisions. Also try to build your own product outside of this if it's too much time or expensive.
omscs takes 5 years part time and u will have no life during this period between working mon-fri and doing masters on sat and sunday
Also crunch time during projects is not fun. If you have Google on your resume it won't do anything more than Google will. It checks a box if you are looking to do ML work, but you would be better of just swapping teams inside Google for that