[oaxacaoaxaca]

I was in the very first cohort of this program. I loved it but had to drop for personal/family reasons after finishing three courses. Someday I'd love to jump back in! I highly recommend it to anyone who might be interested.

[cgearhart]

I was also in the first cohort. Graduated in 2016. Transformed my career. 100% would recommend.

[oaxacaoaxaca]

Oh boy, love to hear that. Would be willing to share how exactly it transformed your career?

[cgearhart]

I had been working in civil service for the US Navy for about 10 years in operations research & systems engineering. It was very hard to break out of that role to any private industry—especially for the ML roles I wanted, which I think was partially because my undergrad degree was MechEng.

OMSCS allowed me to add MSCS to my resume, with additional networking and work experience details as a TA for the algorithms and Computational Photography courses. Suddenly I started getting a lot more calls back. About 6 months after graduation I had moved to the SFBay (to work for Udacity) and within 2 years I was an ML engineer at Apple where I remain today. I don’t think any of that would’ve happened without OMSCS.

[rootsudo]

Your story is an inspiration. Thank you for posting, I've applied for the next cohort in Autumn.

[oaxacaoaxaca]

Whoa! Incredible! Talk about a OMSCS success story. Thank you for sharing – this is seriously going to serve as motivation fuel for me to get back into it.

[cgearhart]

Best of luck! I hope it’s as amazing for you as it was for me.