Re:Omscs: The Revolution Will Be Digitized
by milosdog2 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:22PM
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how soon after did you start the program after your first full time role?
Re:Omscs: The Revolution Will Be Digitized
by loveofprofit on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:22PM
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Concurrently, actually, in the engineering space.
My path was BA philosophy -> MS Finance (worked as an investment advisor) -> after a year break I went back for a post-bacc certificate in CS during which I interned as a software engineer -> OMSCS, which I started the same month I started my first full time software engineer position. A year later I transitioned to a junior DS position, and am now a DS. I'm 30.
Overall OMSCS was a phenomenal value. The lectures are hit or miss, but that's not where the value lies in general, though there are exceptions (Joyner's classes like Human Computer Interaction). The value of the classes lies in the curated projects that high class professors designed and selected to facilitate learning. I learned so much in RL and ML especially due to those projects, as well as Educational Technology due to a project I selected myself.
FWIW I was working full time as a new software engineer when I started the program and after a year it helped me move internally into a data scientist position where I've now been for 2+ years.