I’m currently looking to enter a masters next August and I’m having difficulties choosing which masters to study. My two options are Data Science or Systems Engineering. I have a degree in computer science and I’m currently working at a company where we work with distributed systems, parallel systems, machine learning, cloud, Kubernetes and we have to manage frontend too. I’m an SWE 1 so I’m still a beginner but I will have a solid knowledge in a couple of years because of the difficulty of my job.
Having said that, both areas are pretty interesting to me. The masters in Systems Engineering will have distributed systems, parallel systems, operative systems, advanced math, deep learning, etc. while the data science one is oriented of course to become a data scientist.
If I study the systems engineering, I will have the capacity of becoming really good at my job and achieve a very good salary or have better chances of being hired in the US in a FAANG company. Salary will be very good but at most I will be getting around 200k per year.
On the other hand, if I study data science, it will be a hard learning curve (given that my math skills right now aren’t that great) but eventually I will have better ideas on creating a company myself or even have greater salaries that a normal CS job.
Basically, how I see it is that a masters in Systems Engineering will give me better money short term, while the data science one will take me a bit more time but long term my salary could be far greater.
In the current job market state, what would you choose and why?
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r/cscareerquestions I’m currently looking to enter a masters next August and I’m having difficulties choosing which masters to study. My two options are Data Science or Systems Engineering. I have a degree in computer science and I’m currently working at a company where we work with distributed systems, parallel systems, machine learning, cloud, Kubernetes and we have to manage frontend too. I’m an SWE 1 so I’m still a beginner but I will have a solid knowledge in a couple of years because of the difficulty of my job. Having said that, both areas are pretty interesting to me. The masters in Systems Engineering will have distributed systems, parallel systems, operative systems, advanced math, deep learning, etc. while the data science one is oriented of course to become a data scientist. If I study the systems engineering, I will have the capacity of becoming really good at my job and achieve a very good salary or have better chances of being hired in the US in a FAANG company. Salary will be very good but at most I will be getting around 200k per year. On the other hand, if I study data science, it will be a hard learning curve (given that my math skills right now aren’t that great) but eventually I will have better ideas on creating a company myself or even have greater salaries that a normal CS job. Basically, how I see it is that a masters in Systems Engineering will give me better money short term, while the data science one will take me a bit more time but long term my salary could be far greater. In the current job market state, what would you choose and why? submitted by /u/JustMeAndReality [link] [comments]
I’m currently looking to enter a masters next August and I’m having difficulties choosing which masters to study. My two options are Data Science or Systems Engineering. I have a degree in computer science and I’m currently working at a company where we work with distributed systems, parallel systems, machine learning, cloud, Kubernetes and we have to manage frontend too. I’m an SWE 1 so I’m still a beginner but I will have a solid knowledge in a couple of years because of the difficulty of my job.
Having said that, both areas are pretty interesting to me. The masters in Systems Engineering will have distributed systems, parallel systems, operative systems, advanced math, deep learning, etc. while the data science one is oriented of course to become a data scientist.
If I study the systems engineering, I will have the capacity of becoming really good at my job and achieve a very good salary or have better chances of being hired in the US in a FAANG company. Salary will be very good but at most I will be getting around 200k per year.
On the other hand, if I study data science, it will be a hard learning curve (given that my math skills right now aren’t that great) but eventually I will have better ideas on creating a company myself or even have greater salaries that a normal CS job.
Basically, how I see it is that a masters in Systems Engineering will give me better money short term, while the data science one will take me a bit more time but long term my salary could be far greater.
In the current job market state, what would you choose and why?
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