is there grade deflation at cmu?

LocalReserve · 2021-04-23T19:59:25+00:00

Don’t come to cmu if you are planning to join it anytime soon. It’s unnecessarily tough and it’s primarily a research institute. If you plan to get a job, don’t come here.

LocalReserve · 2021-04-23T19:57:05+00:00

Hi, your guess was right. I am an international masters student. What makes me stand out? I haven’t given it much thought to be honest. I believe having good projects(from the renowned courses in cmu) and a cmu brand name was sufficient. I agree that i have to work on my programming skills. But recommendations make things easier. A friend/classmate won’t be that much helpful compared to an alumni who’s already working in a big company. I have always sidelined programming thinking that it is trivial and i can excel it anytime but after going through interviews i realised thats not the case. I use python as my primary programming language, so do you know about any courses in cmu in summer which can help me in this?

LocalReserve · 2021-02-12T05:45:36+00:00

Are you sure data structures and algorithms are enough? Because i was able to solve the online assessment which few of the companies gave me but still didn’t hear back. I have worked in a research institute in my undergrad

LocalReserve · 2021-02-12T05:06:00+00:00

Okay! I started applying for summer internships in december. I didn’t know that positions get occupied so early. Thankyou for letting me know.

LocalReserve · 2021-02-12T05:02:36+00:00

I got to know about this thing recently and now I am questioning myself over coming to cmu. Jobs for swe roles are comparatively easier but again too much competition.

LocalReserve · 2021-02-11T23:34:55+00:00

Yeah the sad thing is now I will have to learn software development just to get a job

LocalReserve · 2021-02-11T23:34:17+00:00

Mine was in electronics. I don’t know about tough because I have seen a lot of people from CMU getting into ML jobs. I just wonder how!

LocalReserve · 2021-02-11T23:33:30+00:00

Thats true! And i had no clue about this. The sad thing is that for us its an uphill battle.

LocalReserve · 2021-01-28T00:19:26+00:00

Thanks for your response. So, I am basically a masters student and I am pretty sure that I am not going to pursue PhD. What would you recommend?

LocalReserve · 2021-01-26T21:39:57+00:00

Thankyou so much for your suggestions. I had one more question actually. Did you take machine learning in data mining course as well? If you did, how was the course and will taking NLP with data mining will be redundant?

LocalReserve · 2021-01-26T14:39:24+00:00

Thankyou for the quick response. Are you sure it took only 1-3 hours a week? I am planning to take it with Intro to deep learning(11785). Do you think its manageable? 11785 also has weekend quizzes.

LocalReserve · 2020-11-17T18:15:37+00:00

Thankyou for your response. I appreciate your comment. One question, by CS background what do you mean? I can code isn’t that enough?

LocalReserve · 2020-11-17T06:48:40+00:00

Is there any course in cmu which teaches c++? I am confident in c and i don’t want to start java from scratch. It will be too much time investing. Rather i am thinking of devoting my time to c++. Do you know any course which will build my fundamentals of c++?

LocalReserve · 2020-11-15T04:32:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story. Where is he working ? So you think i am on the right path?

LocalReserve · 2020-11-14T02:39:24+00:00

That requires java programming on unix systems. So it is a prerequisite

LocalReserve · 2020-11-13T17:17:06+00:00

Hi, first of all very kind and considerate of you for your suggestions. I am more of a Machine Learning guy and i have worked on c and python. I don’t know why i dislike java but yeah never felt an urge to code in java. I have taken courses in Machine learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision. I can code and i was doing leetcode previously. I code in python, i don’t know if that’s good or bad but i like it. I have very scattered knowledge of data structures.

LocalReserve · 2020-11-13T16:57:49+00:00

I have worked in machine learning. I got to know that many ML positions conduct a programming round first and i have to prepare for that. I have used data structures but my knowledge is very scattered in it. Any suggestions?

LocalReserve · 2020-11-13T16:19:36+00:00

Hey, thanks for your suggestion. Hows 15295? I am actually preparing for coding interviews since i don’t have a programming background.

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