From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 14:26:44 -0400 Subject: academia contribution to the kernel In-Reply-To: <4DE4B8C9.6050207@kthx.be> References: <4DE4B8C9.6050207@kthx.be> Message-ID: <4DE532E4.2050407@surriel.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 05/31/2011 05:45 AM, Pierre Vorhagen wrote: > But I really wonder which type of Master (if any?) would maximize my > chances of being hired by a company working on kernel development and > related matters. Surely, a MSc in Computer Engineering would be more > on-topic than a "traditional" MSc in Computer Science for instance, no? > What *is* the best way to go about a Master that would be related to > Linux development as much as possible? Companies won't care much about your master. However, if you manage to take your code from a proof of concept to something production ready and merged in the Linux kernel, you have just shown the whole world that you are a kernel developer. That is the kind of thing that will get you hired. -- All rights reversed.