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You don’t actually have any offers on the table so you have no opportunities at the moment. Don’t get ahead of yourself, but don’t get discouraged either. If t

You don’t actually have any offers on the table so you have no opportunities at the moment. Don’t get ahead of yourself, but don’t get discouraged either. If the places you want to work at require higher technical skills, then getting a masters degree won’t help you achieve that. I don’t know why you would even consider going for your master’s at this point. Give 2 years of slave labor and take on massive debt just to get your name on a paper no one will ever read and stick your toe into various disciplines you’ll probably never revisit. If you’re really set on data science then you will need a PhD to be competitive in that field. There are a small number of seats with many highly educated people trying to sit in them. Don’t listen to the recruiter about why you didn’t get the engineering job. Recruiters are only useful for getting short-listed. They usually aren’t part of the hiring committee. The team probably just chose someone else with more working experience for less pay. You can never predict whether you’ll get an offer based on how you felt the interview went because you don’t know who else is interviewing and what rate they were submitted for. Sorry if this advice sounds like a lot of “Don’ts.” The reason is because you’re doing mostly the right thing — hitting the pavement and maximizing your options. Keep doing that and eventually you’ll get an offer, ideally 2.

m1nz1 5y ago
99.9% of the reason I am considering the masters is because I figure it fills a gap in my resume and makes me eligible to far more internships. I don't really want to do data science. I sort've drifted towards it because my major was computational math and it was such a hot field (still is). I don't think that I missed that job because of the pay or experience on my resume. I had a bit of an anxiety attack during my final interview of the onsite. It isn't the first company I lost out on due to last second freeze ups either sadly. If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that I carry on working on side projects and applying to jobs. I am fortunate enough to be able to survive doing this, but my feeling is that the longer I remain the fewer callbacks I will get due to the gap. Do you disagree or is there some way I can mitigate that effect?
- tboyd47 5y ago
  If you’re worried about a gap in your resume, then everybody has that problem. The reason for the hiring crisis is that the A/T/S software that companies use filters people out who have a gap, and everybody has a gap. Maybe you can look online for ways to format your resume to pass through the A/T/S software? My point is that there’s easier ways to deal with that then going to get your Masters.

m1nz1 5y ago

99.9% of the reason I am considering the masters is because I figure it fills a gap in my resume and makes me eligible to far more internships. I don't really want to do data science. I sort've drifted towards it because my major was computational math and it was such a hot field (still is). I don't think that I missed that job because of the pay or experience on my resume. I had a bit of an anxiety attack during my final interview of the onsite. It isn't the first company I lost out on due to last second freeze ups either sadly. If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that I carry on working on side projects and applying to jobs. I am fortunate enough to be able to survive doing this, but my feeling is that the longer I remain the fewer callbacks I will get due to the gap. Do you disagree or is there some way I can mitigate that effect?

tboyd47 5y ago
If you’re worried about a gap in your resume, then everybody has that problem. The reason for the hiring crisis is that the A/T/S software that companies use filters people out who have a gap, and everybody has a gap. Maybe you can look online for ways to format your resume to pass through the A/T/S software? My point is that there’s easier ways to deal with that then going to get your Masters.