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Max Rosett
Personal blog · writing.maxrosett.comcareerstartups
Max Rosett's personal blog at writing.maxrosett.com covers career and startups. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reflections on the Georgia Tech Online MS in Computer Science”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Max Rosett's blog for reflections on the online Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech (OMSCS), written after finishing the program. The linked posts cover the program's teaching quality and credential value.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reflections on the Georgia Tech Online MS in Computer Science2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-10
What Hacker News says?
I’ll second this recommendation. I wrote a summary of my thoughts on the program after I graduated in 2017: http://writing.maxrosett.com/reflections-on-the-georgia-tech...
Comment linking /reflections-on-the-georgia-tech-online-ms-in-computer-science.html
on “Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?”Submitted Startup Stock Options: How Did a Good Deal Go Bad? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe thread is filled with other OMSCS students, so I may as well throw in my perspective as a grad. - The instruction quality is comparable to free online courses (which is unsurprising since it's all delivered over Udacity anyway.) - I learned a ton - What Georgia Tech gets right is simple and a little sad: credentials matter. I learned a lot by going through a bunch of online courses and being graded, but a signif…
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on “Omscs: The Revolution Will Be Digitized”Submitted Why Users Don't Complain About “The Google Squeeze” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI graduated 2 years ago next month and will say that doing the OMSCS was the best professional decision I've made. There's one unusual thing about my case though: I have a lot of prestige on my resume (Ivy league school, BCG, Google), so I mostly just wanted a) the learning and b) to say I have an MS. I don't know how I would feel about the program if I were more concerned about prestige. A quick plug for my writeup…
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on “Omscs: The Revolution Will Be Digitized”Submitted Reflections on the Georgia Tech Online MS in Computer Science as a story · 1 points
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