Dunno if I would automatically side with his story from that.
Also he has a background in bio, and managed to land a full stack and ML engineer positions, implying he is self taught, and therefore should be already fairly intelligent...but he decided to go get his MS in CS, without even doing any research project and just opting for the GTA instead of GRA route.
None of us can really know for sure, Im just saying it smells a little fishy. If his resume came across my desk, Id have some specific questions about his experience. If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different.
This is pettiness taken to the max.
Most research people do in grad school will not have applicable use to employers. And for an MS, people will simply learn more by going the coursework route. Going the research route is good only for PhD admissions.
And finally, many universities in the US do not even offer a research route for the CS MS. They tell you to apply straight for a PhD.
If you're going to ask tough questions, at least know your domain!
Is that really so impressive? Bio people do a lot of coding, and good dev practices can be learned on the job. ML is probably also something he played with during his studies. Full stack + some ML experience is probably enough for a junior ML engineer.
A CS degree opens doors. And you don't know what he planned when he started his degree.
Asking about someone's experience when interviewing them is reasonable. Calling short jobs during university fishy isn't.
Could you elaborate more on this? I'm assuming this is a detail of the US education system of which I don't know anything :)
At best you're arguing that Amazon is dysfunctional in a slightly different way than the rest of this thread thinks.
