NUST Alumnus: here to help answer your questions about career prospects
Hey folks,
It has been a long time since I had graduated and in the last few years, I have mostly lost touch with NUST. I recently stumbled upon this community and while browsing through it, I saw a lot of anxiety about the career prospects and scope of certain degree programs inside or outside Pakistan. Reminiscing the past, I could totally see a reflection of myself standing at the same junction of life 17 years ago.
Anyway, I thought perhaps I could offer some perspective and help answer any questions you may have. I am fortunate enough to be at a vantage point where I have seen the evolution of computing in the last two decades and can probably guess where the future is heading.
A bit about myself: I graduated from SEECS with what you would today call CS/SE degree. Cut to the chase, I am now in the US working at one of the top-3 big tech companies for last couple of years.
Using Throwaway because... reasons :-) but happy to verify if the mods want it. If you would like this to go in an AMA style, I'm fine with scheduling it but you guys would have to teach me the conduct :-)
Looking forward to interesting discussion!
Edit: Since there are lots of questions regarding grad school admissions process, I'd leave this link here since it has almost everything that you would need: https://nustianusa.org/coaching/
Edit-1 [12:26AM PST]: Great discussions so far. Stepping away to take care of some stuff but will be back in a couple of hrs to answer more questions. Keep them coming.
Edit-2 [3:43AM PST]: Back! Will be answering for the next few hrs.
Edit-3 [5:30 AM PST +2days] Thanks to all of you for asking many insightful questions. I really enjoyed the conversation and hope the discussions were of help to you. My initial plan was to do this AMA for 48 hrs so I’ll probably be less active on this throwaway account. But I may check and respond here and there. Or may be we can do another AMA/coaching session after some time if folks find it useful.
Wishing good luck to all of you in your future endeavors!