Continue MSc or Work? Share your plan :)

do u get a masters degree after 1 year?

Just finished my MEng CS and starting PhD in October. There is no way I would work in industry, I hated my placement year at Microsoft. Never again.

what did you do there? also where do you expect to get a job once you get your phd? I am planning on doing MEng comp. systems. eng that why I am wondering.

I was doing the same work as the full time staff.

which is?

Boring tedious crap I barely remember. Mostly remember the whole team taking 2 hour lunches every day, some localisation crap, some QA crap and trying to automate the QA crap, there was alot of spreadsheets used. Dead boring. I got the feeling the team was waiting for some work to materialise which just never did that entire year.

tbh, that just sounds like a problem with MS than the industry. My year in industry at Sophos was very different.

tbh it was a similar experience to most of the people in my year who went to a large variety of companies so maybe yours was the exception?

At York it was a mixed bag. The people who worked at IBM hated it for the most part, the people who worked at ANT loved it, and most of the people I know that worked at BAE loved it too.

I do think its also really dependant on your own personality and working style. Some people just fit into the corperate enviroment instantly and do really well within it.

Given that I wasn't exactly Little Miss Spectacular Grades at uni, that could be a problem!

I'd agree with that - one issue that I have is that I absolutely hate the corporate environment. Given that I wasn't exactly Little Miss Spectacular Grades at uni, that could be a problem!