After I graduated my bsc and got a job I also did a master's degree of 2 years. Because I was working (sometimes 10-12h/day + weekends) and was not some genius, it took me 4 years to graduate it. Now I'll finally present my disseration thesis (some shitty nlp with neural nets project). I am not sure how useful the diploma will be, but I got the chance to take some interesting courses: - big data (hadoop/spark all that shit) - reverse engineering (converting binaries to asm and trying to understand the flow from asm) - j2ee - cloud - paralled programming and distributed operating systems (open mpi, fun with threads, processes) - blockchain (wrote a lot of solidity and had the chance to get to know how all this crypto crap is working) - software security (exploit development) Taking in to consideration the coursework and the fact that it took me 4 instead of 2 years to finish it, do you think this master's is going to help me in any way in life? Most people told me it was a complete waste of time.
Very similar position. SDE-1, TC: 125k, graduate, Seattle. Should I pursue masters?
OP would you recommend me doing Masters?
Not sure what to say, I did it mostly because I wanted to learn new things and because my bsc was a 3 years one. Even the recruiter at google told me the masters is not important. I think if you want nice jobs with high rank and lots of money, I can't say if the masters will help (that's why I made this thread in the first place)
It's useful when you need F1 opt. Schools are good for learning science instead of technologies. The technologies taught are 5yrs behind the tech industry.
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Yea it's useful. What you posted is just a variation of different parts of the OS stack at a very different granularity. Just do advanced basics in grad school. Don't spend time learning about fancy stuff. You need to understand say llvm or different types of cache coherence or flip a tree to list so you can do prefix sum when you want to parallelize not JavaScript or some new ML library. Lamport created his work in the 90-00s so a good school still teaches these. Simply put learn deep into basics and math.
Actually, asking this question is most certainly a waste of time :D because you are evaluating sunken cost. The best time to ask this question was 4 years ago and then it could have informed your decision. But.. nothing is completely useless. I spent 10 minutes eating some ice cream just now - was that "completely useless"? No.. it was simply 10 minutes of my life and I enjoyed it very much.
This is the one and only golden answer. What are you going to do if people vote it was worthless? Travel back in time?
Your masters is unlikely to help you advance career wise, so does that make it useless? MBA's seem to help advance careers.
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If you were already employed and you did the masters just to get ahead at your job then it’s a waste of time and money. If you did it because you enjoy and wanted to learn more that’s not a waste.