Online masters in cs
Is completing an online masters for cs at georgia tech worth it? I hear many people say it is not needed anymore and is only used to give an initial boost in salary when you first start. I plan on working and taking classes if I was to do it. I am 2yoe, from a career/salary point of view is this worth doing?
No just get on the job experience
Drop out, be successful, skip the loans.
It's 8k for 10 classes. Many worthwhile classes. Depends on your undergrad. I know mine for a CS major covered almost everything available by OMSCS. I wasn't a CS major, so it is valuable to me
How much effort is it?
It is very dependant on the classes you take. For the most part, the harder classes are also the more interesting ones. You can *breeze* through take courses like SDP where you pretty much make a Android app or you take something like AI which has an infamous 20-40 hour fake home midterm.
If you want to maximize career/salary early on - just leetcode, get a ton of competing offers and negotiate. OMSCS is great if you want to extend your CS base to something like machine learning i.e. youre a software engineer that wants to switch to data science
1st edit and make a poll 2nd yes, I am also planning to do it. Overall I would be a better software developer, 2 yoe 65k TC Android Developer
Does doing courses and doing a good project not cut it anymore?
Depends on the job you want and whether you have a CS undergrad already
I think a master's program is only good for if you have interest in research or going into a socialized field.i tried the omscs program offered by gt, but I found it annoying, time consuming and in the end not worth it, because I'm happy developing web apps. Might go back in the future and do it in person though. Lots of interesting fields to explore
Everybody will have their masters in a couple of years. Everyone in the industry knows it’s online. Online degrees are massive waste of money
You clearly don’t know about Georgia tech or Omscs. It will make you bleed to get the degree. Hell a lot of work load. No recruiter will look down on Georgia tech degree. However people with solid resume don’t need it. If OP works for VMware, degree is not going to add anymore value. Being said that GT can push students hard and that may make students learn a lot. Will that learning transfer to work? Nope. GT don’t care about day to day work. They care only about knowledge and advancements in CS.
Is it for online or in person ?
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