Is a master's in computer science worth it?

is a master's in computer science worth it?

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Depends on your goals
If you want more scientific content and expand your knowledge in a fast way with a potential scientific career - then yes

If you want to make more money - not really. Two years of experience is worth more than the masters, plus nobody will care about it after 2-3 jobs and 5+ years experience

thanks, you answered my question pretty well
close the thread janny

Bjarne

I live in Germany and it's worth it, I'm the dick swinger in my team and everyone has to listen to me just because I have one.

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This is not necessarily correct. Depends on what you mean by "scientific" career, I guess you were referring to academia?

Some high paying jobs in specialised fields like AI, Graphics, ML, Finance, electronics do require you to have a masters degree if not a PhD

You can do those jobs with a BS if you have relevant experience

LARP

It's true. I've worked on self-driving vehicles and now I'm in fintech. I've pretty much done everything from AI, Graphics, ML, Finance while only getting a BS. Sure, I've worked alongside people with PhDs, but they spent too much time in school they were basically worse engineers, and I got paid more to fix their mistakes since I could deliver. But again, my experience may not be the same everywhere in the industry.

>fintech
have you worked with bisqwit

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no because he's a bus driver.

your the only one with the penis in your team???
nice

The place I bought my degree from offered a package deal for bachelor's + master's. It was like $100 more, so I figured "why not?" Everywhere I've worked / interviewed with has been more interested in experience and skill than academic credentials, but I suspect that having a master's has greased a few rails in HR departments and immigration offices.

based pajeet scamming european contractors with false credentials and his poo code

You will be as important as a doctor if you get one as compared to everyone who doesn't have one. They'll be literal cucks and will listen to your every opinion and take it as fact.

Perhaps. If your goal is to become an academic, it's pretty tough without a PhD and a masters is the lead-in to that. If your goal is to go into industry and earn a lot of money, a masters is mostly useless.
But there are other goals than those; if you want to learn something in more depth because you WANT TO KNOW then a masters is a good start (but not the end of learning; it's about setting you up so you can learn properly for yourself after that).
Drifting into doing one without some sort of goal in life is probably a bad idea.

Most people are not competent enough to do the jobs where a masters degree really helps, so as a general rule, no it's not worth it.

If you want to go into academia, yes a masters is worth it. If you're looking for very high level, specialised, technical positions than yes a masters degree is helpful. The bigbux fintech jobs mostly hire masters and PhDs, but they're also hiring out of top schools, so we return to the point of "most people are not competent enough to do the jobs where a masters degree really helps". One of the bigger scams of contemporary society is this idea if we simply get everybody to spend more time in school, that means they can do more difficult jobs, but what this really results in is the standards being raised for jobs where having a masters degree is totally and utterly irrelevant and for insane calls for the government to increase financial support for this retarded system since people are getting themselves into more debt in this race to the bottom.

I know people who do work in more advanced work, and generally speaking a masters/PhD is a nice foot in the door, but you can have literally zero education and companies will start calling you if you can make a name for yourself. At the end of the day, if a company needs somebody who can do a very specialised thing very well, they're not going to let HR stacies going "ahem sweaty this candidate does not have the level of education typical for this position" or their CFO get in the way.

The rub is that you're ultimately going to have to learn more than a masters degree student would anyways, so this isn't some epic shortcut. At the end of the day, most people are open minded enough to realise that talent can come from anywhere and that honestly the most talented people if anything are not going to be the type of mediocre people who do masters degree programs just to impress HR stacies. If anything they'll invent their own jobs.

Ye if it's funded by not your money

So the answer is yes then.

No. The actual "science" part in CS requires no more than a bachelor's. In a master's in CS specifically, you're going to waste time learning some meme frameworks made by your professors, doing some bullshit research on some failed projects and nothing more.

Master's degrees in general are a good idea, they open more doors than a bachelor's and often allow you to obtain a PhD in less time if you ever decide to get one. However, DO NOT get a master's degree in CS. Major in something else instead, even if you already have a bachelor's in CS.

What's your job ? What does your team do ?