Hello, I'm currently ending my junior year for undergrad about to enter senior year. I didn't manage to get accepted into my schools Masters program so I'm wondering what I should be doing now. I've historically prioritized my self coding projects and Hackathon's over schools so grades not the best but I've had an internship at T-Mobile and this summer I will be at Cisco. I want to get into the bay area so next year I will probably apply to Uber, Airbnb, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other top tech companies. I know I need to be grinding on Leetcode this summer to pass the interviews, this year I got interviews with Google and Facebook but didn't get through all the coding questions so I know what I need to improve on. My real question is how important is a masters degree in CS for me to move through the corporate ladder at those kind of companies above, will i receive a hard block at any time for not having a masters degree, is it something I should be prioritizing in the next few years?
Any reason why you want to go to the bay area? It's pretty shit imo tbh. Better TC elsewhere for cost of living and such.
From what I've read here the highest salaries are in the bay area. Ik taxes and rent are all high but your not going to be making 300-500k in other areas unless ur like the vp of some company vs just a software engineer at uber. I plan on just staying in the shittiest place I could find and saving up for a few years and moving from company to company to get the highest pay I can before going to like Austin which seems really promising and considerably cheaper.
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I have friends working at some of those companies you mentioned who didn’t even finish undergrad
Have they mentioned any barriers when it comes to promotions or have they noticed less pay then there peers?
For entry level you will have less pay but you will also have 2 extra years + less debt