4 ms·
Until recently I worked at a startup as Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist. There I got some experience interviewing people and looking at their resumes.
by ma2rten 10y ago
Until recently I worked at a startup as Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist. There I got some experience interviewing people and looking at their resumes. In my experience, which is very limited compared to this post, people who put an MOOC on their resume are usually less qualified compared to people who don't.
There is nothing wrong with MOOCs, but they are almost always beginner-level. If you put them on your resume it kindof implies you don't have a lot of experience beyond that. Putting the Coursera Machine Learning course on your resume would be the equivalent of putting Java 101 on your resume for a Software Engineer.
I would recommend anyone to put projects on your CV instead. Even if you don't have a lot of work experience, just put side-projects and school projects on there.
- jghn 10y agoI think the point here are folks taking MOOCs for enrichment, not as a gateway to get a job. So for instance someone taking the ML course just for knowledge, not to try to get in the door as a data scientist
- ma2rten 10y agoYeah, like I said, there is nothing wrong with MOOCs, but I would not put them on my resume as a candidate nor would I value them as a positive signal from an employer's point of view when I see them on a resume.
- pmiller2 10y agoI don't think we can assume that, unless the participants were specifically asked this.
- zump 10y agoElitism.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- stolsvik 10y agoThat's absurd. Everything in a masters degree is "beginner" when you've worked 10 years in a field. When I took my MSc in computer science, there hardly was any "big data" and deep learning around. That you actually would fail me for taking a course in this field is utterly beyond me.
- ma2rten 10y agoI would definitely not reject you because of that and I took MOOCs myself in the past.