This might be a silly question. But did getting a Masters in CS give you a boot in your career compared to someone who is self taught or someone who just has a Bachelors in CS?
This isn't a silly question at all! Thank you for asking. I would say yes, it really helped me starting my business full-time, because I could establish some business contacts during that time and I learned a lot of self-discipline (I wrote my Masters thesis when my son was about 6 months old 😅) as well as working in teams. But in my opinion, all of these things could have also been learned as Bachelor or self-tought. There were a lot of specialised subjects I learned in my Masters studies that were really interesting but are not really relevant for my current work today.
The advantage you have with a Masters degree (at least here in Germany) is that you will more likely find a job with higher salary. But I have the feeling that it's changing more and more from employers looking at degrees to employers looking at the projects you did...
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This might be a silly question. But did getting a Masters in CS give you a boot in your career compared to someone who is self taught or someone who just has a Bachelors in CS?
This isn't a silly question at all! Thank you for asking. I would say yes, it really helped me starting my business full-time, because I could establish some business contacts during that time and I learned a lot of self-discipline (I wrote my Masters thesis when my son was about 6 months old 😅) as well as working in teams. But in my opinion, all of these things could have also been learned as Bachelor or self-tought. There were a lot of specialised subjects I learned in my Masters studies that were really interesting but are not really relevant for my current work today.
The advantage you have with a Masters degree (at least here in Germany) is that you will more likely find a job with higher salary. But I have the feeling that it's changing more and more from employers looking at degrees to employers looking at the projects you did...