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Masters Degreees seldom seem worth it. It's just delaying you from doing real work and getting hands on experience. When I interview someone with a Masters I
by dbg31415 10y ago
Masters Degreees seldom seem worth it. It's just delaying you from doing real work and getting hands on experience. When I interview someone with a Masters I just think, "Kid couldn't get a job out of undergrad... wonder what's wrong with him." But if it gives you confidence, go for it... Give me a self-taught applicant who builds side projects and has an active GitHub account over a Masters any day.
- UK-AL 10y agoDepends what stuff you want. I would assume a self taught applicant would be building web apps and such. Master's degree applicant would be building something like, compilers, distributed systems, machine learning etc as part of the degree
- stewartpark 10y agoI think that also depends. What makes you think that self-taught applicants can't learn compilers, distributed systems, or machine learning? If the candidate has proven the same amount of knowledge acquired during the interview, I'd definitely go for the self-taught one.
- dbg31415 10y agoI think back to the best developers I've ever worked with, and one of them did have a Masters... in Philosophy. I just haven't seen any correlation between skill and education level. Ha, with the exception of people who get a PMP... I've found them to almost always be bad at running projects.
- UK-AL 10y agoBecause that stuff is harder to learn on the web simply because of the lack of comprehensive materials. For web development there is tons of resources on the web to learn. The other stuff you really need to start reading books or academic papers. And it's useful to have someone to tell you where to start.