As a developer I feel my career advancement stagnating in its current trajectory.

This feels silly to ask, but is there merit to obtaining a masters degree as a software/design engineer to get to staff level one day?

My gut says experience and street cred matter way more but I'm curious what others think of the ROI.

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i was a tech recruiter before and i hired a lot of founding engineers, usually they had 10-20 years of exp. if you're trying to move up internally to a staff position and that's one of the requirements (and you want to do that), you can

but your instinct is right, street cred is more important. i'd rather see a github full of significant OSS contributions, that you've written an oreilly textbook etc. don't think skewl really matters that much for devs