>>12236030>What is your industry experience ?I was a math/CS double major, did R&D in industry for 2 years, then I went in to grad school for my PhD
>>12236041>applied math can be applied to any field This is true
>complement a career in any field even if not going directly into CS>how is a math masters badSo, let's establish that we're talking about applied math masters, and not a math masters. First and foremost, you've established yourself as someone who knows more math than BSc holders in CS, and engineering (maybe math too, but not necessarily). However, without anything else on your resume (experience, research, etc.), that doesn't mean much. You COULD apply it somewhere...but why should they hire you, someone demanding more than entry level salary, than an engineering bsc holder who can learn the relevant mathematics on the job as they train him? You would still have to learn about the application area, which is a nontrivial task. You can more easily transition into software, but you could have been way more easily serviced by getting a CS BSc and a math minor or double major, to which you would have both relevant degree experience, hopefully internships, and fresh grad preferences on your way.
The point is that a masters in math means you technically *can* apply it to other places, but in practice this means companies have to go on faith they don't have in you to learn the application area while paying you more for jobs they can fill with cheaper people in other areas. And in practice, most applied math masters do stat crunching or some form of software.
Also, a math masters is an awkward in-between of being better at math than most people but having no marketable skills in the application areas that people care about, but also not being good or well decorated as a PhD, where you know enough math and are good enough at it to be useful in research contexts, and research is where people *do* trust you to pick up application areas easily.
