Not many people know about Masters in the area of Industrial engineering or as it is known in the US as Management Science and Engineering. Graduates from this field land up jobs at some of the most admired companies of the world like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft along with a host of start up companies. Dhruv Sampat just recently graduated with an MS in MS&E from Stanford. He shares some of his thoughts and his background with us here:
kaaledge: What is your background - i.e. - education in india - which college
and course?
DS: I did my Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Mumbai University at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering. I worked as a Programmer Analyst at Tata Consultancy …

This quarter i am taking another one of BJ Fogg’s classes. Its the much talked about Facebook class. Just for the purpose of being thorough - the official name of the class is - Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook (CS377W). I love this course! I am just having a lot of fun in it. Now if you have taken any CS course (live databases, algos, programming, OS), you might know they are incredibly time consuming and require a lot of hours during the quarter. This course is similar in those terms - asks for a more than reasonable time commitment (though really depends on your motivation) - but its different than all the rest of …

I just received an email from Connie Chan (if you are stanford CS - u her know all too well!) - who is part of the Stanford Computer Forum - basically our career maker - who interacts and setups up company info sessions. And what surprised me was the company which was holding info sessions is Infosys! Its amazing that an Indian company is hiring right from the intellectual heartland of the US of A. And well TCS does some hiring from Stanford CS as well, but thats mostly from the North America office. But Infosys is much more aggressive and recruits directly for its Bangalore office.
Some of the benefits mentioned are as follows:
“Benefits: Comprehensive compensation package that includes return …