At least here in Australia, I don't believe comp sci grads really get the chance to use their knowledge. I did my masters at the University of Melbourne. If I

At least here in Australia, I don't believe comp sci grads really get the chance to use their knowledge. I did my masters at the University of Melbourne. If I stay in Australia I will almost certainly be doing pretty boring CRUD work, so yeah I am doing exchange at ETH Zurich next sem and probably gonna apply for jobs in the USA or continue my studies via a PhD at University of Sydney. The masters program was kinda intense: - wrote a compiler - wrote a distributed mutual exclusion/leader election algorithm - wrote an incremental, data-parallel louvain modularity optimisation algorithm - wrote a key/value store on top of Raft (although this was a personal project done after the Distributed Algorithms subject) - wrote code for simulation of the Andromeda-Milky Way collision and ran it on the Universitiy's HPC cluster - will be developing an Operating System at ETH These US based companies should give Australia a chance, we have some good universities and even one that rivals Ivy leagues in computer science imo (looking at UNSW here)