Companies should be intelligent enough to hire for what they really need. Hiring an MS just for the sake of the MS is not always the best strategy.
In a research-driven job, someone with a strong research background in CS makes sense.
For a job where you want a top craftsmen and producer of code, it would seem to be much more tangential.
For the latter situation, companies that hire purely based on academic credentials will likely be making suboptimal, if not outright negative EV hiring decisions.
In a research-driven job, someone with a strong research background in CS makes sense.
For a job where you want a top craftsmen and producer of code, it would seem to be much more tangential.
For the latter situation, companies that hire purely based on academic credentials will likely be making suboptimal, if not outright negative EV hiring decisions.