Re:The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)
by meri_dian on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:41AM
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To be fair, I think saying they all "simply wanted the credential" is a bit dismissive of the Indian students. I'm sure many of them are passionate about computer science, and view an American MS as a path to higher learning and understanding in a subject they care about as much as they see it as a useful credential.
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Re:The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)
by x0x0 on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:29AM
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Why? It's a stupid hoop we make people jump through to get a job here (well, not a requirement, but it smooths the path. Both for the visa and for being located in the states to interview.) I've interviewed (and hired!) a ton of such folks and don't think most of them got much out of the MS programs they went to. FWIW we would almost certainly have been happy to hire them anyway.