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Hi Everyone,
I just received an offer to work as an software sales representative (SDR) for IBMs Z systems. I'm coming as a sales engineer in the cloud security space. Can anyone advise me on whether Z systems are something worth going into? Also what do the growth opportunities look like at IBM? Is there opportunity for lateral movement onto other teams? Not too sure how I feel about working on mainframes (Z systems) but they keep pitching hybrid cloud to me. IBM
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If you're already a data scientist at a big tech company and have the title, there's very little incentive of getting a master's. You're better off just getting onto cool projects and jumping around to better roles as the opportunities pop up.
Your portfolio of work is much more important than credentials in this field.
There is an exception that if you want to do research you either need a phd or to get published a few times.
DS masters may not be worth it. I would look at more specialized masters like comp bio, or comp stat, statistical genetics etc if you want to go down that route. The reason is that the value of comp bio is the latter part... discovering biological insights.
Can I ask what your salary is?
I would do it. It will probably get you over the 200k mark.
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Are you going to study those methods on your own anyway, are you the type who is comfortable studying only part time, and have you been getting a good amount of interviews in those fields as is? If yes to all, can skip the masters