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A comment on Ask HN: Masters in CS, ML, or get a job?.

Re:Ask HN: Masters in CS, ML, or get a job? by djinnandtonic on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:51AM (#16023160)
I have friends at the code camp, BS, MS, and PhD level; PhD enables you to go into research or stay in academia, but my buddies with Masters really haven't seen any benefit. They're still competing for the same jobs as the BS folks: the degree gets you an interview, but after that nobody cares what your degree is or where it's from.

Disclamer: this is my experience in a secondary market, SF might be different.

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Re:Ask HN: Masters in CS, ML, or get a job? by GFischer on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:20AM (#16029332)
Same here, I have a Master's degree but I haven't seen many benefits other than getting a foot in the door. (also not in SF/the US)
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