Your views on a master's degree

Apr 25, 2020 15 Comments

I have some thoughts on having a master's degree in CS from a distinguished institute. I have a bachelor's degree in CS from distinguished institute in India. My basics are pretty solid.

Main focus is to gain some more knowledge and strengthen my network.
Most people from my circle don't like this idea.

What are your views on having a master's degree ? Does it help in career?

P.S. : From India, 1.5 YOE, working in cognizant at a post which generally takes 6-7 YOE for an ELT guy to reach. I started with a pretty good salary for a fresher.

#career #suggestion

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  • Coupang
    BRGJ01

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    BRGJ01
    What is ELT ?
    Apr 25, 2020 2
  • Google / Eng
    gะพะพgle

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    gะพะพgle
    If you're still in India, masters would be useful to set foot in the US and get out of your slaveshop
    Apr 25, 2020 0
  • Cisco / Eng
    indoor

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    Hands on developer, hardworking, leader, influencer, extremely committed to work, like to learn new things, level head in times of pressure
    indoor
    The value of a masters degree is diminishing very fast. Learning has moved online, and in a fast adapting world companies also put their employees through online career paths which are much more streamlined and effective than a 2 year course.
    Take a job, learn on the job through part time and online courses. Your resume will be much richer than with an MS degree grad.
    Apr 25, 2020 6
    • Cisco / Eng
      indoor

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      Hands on developer, hardworking, leader, influencer, extremely committed to work, like to learn new things, level head in times of pressure
      indoor
      Yes agreed with that. But I'd argue the need for writing/inventing totally new frameworks/stuff is reducing with the times... Humans have already figured out the best ways to do popular things already. Ofcourse there are exceptions, but those are very specialized fields. Eg battery technology. But we have masters degrees in many topics today which are reducing in value.
      Apr 25, 2020
    • New / Creative
      Berlin_

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      @Cisco I'm not writing assembly but atleast should be capable of creating a say a DFS in C++. I'm not here to argue on your purview but here to help that kid who wants to grow up in the career.
      If you ever completed say a OS course most of the technologies that evolved in last 20 years are abstract elements from POSIX of 90s.

      A concurrent file share (say Google docs) is a representation of cache operation in TLB of shared memory operation managed by the same way threads do in multithreading with pthreads so to speak.
      Apr 25, 2020
  • New
    purpletech

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    purpletech
    More education always helps if you can do it - Once you get a job Most are content with it hence they dont like to switch back to education.
    Apr 25, 2020 0
  • Salesforce
    Cadbury ๐Ÿซ

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    Cadbury ๐Ÿซ
    Go for it! I wish I did.
    Apr 25, 2020 0