I have recruited, interviewed, and hired across three tech companies as an IC tech lead and as a manager, most recently at AWS. In each company, the entry level position was the same for a bachelor’s and master’s candidates. Often we hire folks with relevant internship experience over education. Academic backgrounds in CS can only take you so far in professional software imho. Only difference in this I’ve seen is if you had a PhD in ML/AI or another niche field like Spatial Computing.