I have a newly graduated SW Eng (BS in CS) who is struggling to find a job and getting advice to go back and get a Master’s Degree in #LLM in order to be more marketable.
I’ve always heard that grad degrees aren’t strictly necessary in SWE to start but is this changing? Are there other time investments that make more sense (open source contributions, certifications, personal projects, etc?)?
The part that's most overwhelming for me is the sheer ambivalence of the masses that I have to wade through on the daily just to get another day deeper into the shit. "Where's the outrage?” may seem like a stilted, self-defeating question, except that the context it's uttered in is one where the mainstream politicians that are literally on ballots in my state are campaigning on things like “round up and execute the trans people.”