> has anyone here ever looked at a resume with an MSc in CS and said "Yep, I bet this person knows how to write code well" A Masters in CS doesn't tell me the

> has anyone here ever looked at a resume with an MSc in CS and said "Yep, I bet this person knows how to write code well" A Masters in CS doesn't tell me the person knows how to code well, but it does tell me that they are _more likely_ to - Have had experience with a wider variety of algorithms, data structures, and general coding concepts - Have written code to perform more complex things - Written code for someone "outside of a classroom" Certainly the last two are more directly accomplished by actually being in the workforce. However, an educational environment is a far better source for the first one. Now, I'm not saying having a Masters is necessarily _better_ for a developer but - Given two developers with no work experience, one with a Masters and one with a Bachelors; I would generally assume the one with the Masters is a better developer. - Given two developers with a similar amount of work experience, one with a Masters and one with a Bachelors; I would generally assume the one with the Masters is a better developer. - Given two developers, one with a Masters and no work experience, one with a Bachelors a couple years of work experience; I wouldn't make any assumptions about their skill (they're certainly different, but I wouldn't assume one is a better developer than the other). The same logic holds true for me when people try to convince me that a degree in CSci offers no benefit at all, and that it's better to just self study and start working. There's nothing you can learn during a degree that _can't_ be learned by self study; but there's a lot of things that are much more likely to be learned in an academic environment.