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Users without a CS degree, what aspects of SWE or IT do you feel like you are missing by not having studied CS (discuss.online)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

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What talking with a friend who transitioned from marketing into cloud (AWS) and then into security, and he spends a lot of time studying to ensure he understands all the concepts required for technical discussions.

Curious to see what the community opinions are. Feel free to share your initial background as well.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the articles on Hacker News don’t make sense. I can’t write a C compiler. I never had student loan debt.

Practically though, it’s moot. I took many CS and math classes at community college, but people don’t think that’s real education for some reason. I can do and understand the silly leetcode questions. I don’t think I could mathematically prove anything anymore.

I never had the money to go to university so I went and found a job instead. Learned everything I needed to from peers to specialize in Rails, then later, general web development. 13 years later, not only am I making far more money than I ever expected to, but I am very confident in my skills.

I regret nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How'd you get the job without the degree?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I applied and interviewed! For context, it was a Craigslist ad, and code bootcamps did not yet exist. Openings at companies like Google had tons of competition at the time, but small tech was easy enough to get into without all the entry-level competition produced by bootcamps, and more recently, mass layoffs.