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And to go above that? Grad school and Phd or just very specialized niche knowledge or moving into finance/quant jobs?
by nnoitra 6y ago
And to go above that? Grad school and Phd or just very specialized niche knowledge or moving into finance/quant jobs?
- jedberg 6y agoYou can get a new skillset but that may not increase your pay, just your job options, unless you learn a higher paying specialty (like AI or ML or something). Otherwise your options are manager or architect.
- nnoitra 6y agoDo you need to get Msc to learn a AI/ML to get more monies?
- wiz21c 6y agoIt all depends on what you lean by above. Going to management, at least for me, was a totally different job from coding (and I was not happy at it). It's 10% technical and 90% people management. Architect is more technical but, still, I think there's a lot of people mgmt (explain X that he must code that way and not this way, and explain it again because he thinks he's smarter than you and know better, etc. this can easily happen twice a day :-( ) My solution, just for me, so far is to change skill set : going back to academia and learn ML/AI at top level. Big bonus : I got to learn again, math/algorithmic stuff, etc. which I love. And I'm not concerned too much about the pay (for example, a management job, super e,try level, paid 10% more but with at least 90% percent more stress for me, was absolutely not worth it)
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- burntoutfire 6y agoSure, in many careers grad school/phd will help. Not in coding though - in coding, there's nothing grad school can teach you that you can't learn on your own. There are high school graduates who are absolutely top coders.
- nnoitra 6y agoI don't know of a discipline called "coding". For Soft End. I'd argue that a really strong undergrad degree in CS is a huge advantage.