For what it's worth we don't consider candidates without a degree when we hire. It doesn't HAVE to be a CS degree - math or electrical engineering is close enough most of the time. But there's just so many job seekers without a degree and most of them are useless so we save a lot of time and effort simply ignoring those.
Poll: Do you have a CS degree?
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#102I'm "In Progress", I was doing contract work while I was still in high school and took two years off after high school to work at a variety of companies, then left a 6-figure job at 19 to go back to school and finish my degree so I wouldn't have a hard time finding jobs in the future (and because I knew that if I didn't do it then, which allowed me to graduate college the same year as my high school classmates, I wou…
I'm 20 and I've been working/interning at companies since high school. How did you manage to land a 6-figure job at 19?
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#103Dropped out out of frustration with ridiculous emphasis on calculus and extremely poor algorithms teachers. I don't regret dropping out, I regret wasting a couple of years fighting that. But almost 15 years later I now find algorithms teaching in top universities completely out of touch with reality. Hardware changed drastically in the last decade and it seems they just gave up. It's turning into a cult of big-O theo…
Man, dropped out because of calculus? Calculus is awesome! It powers most of the physics that are of interest to the lay person.
To each their own, I guess.
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#104Dropped something else to have CS degree
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#105Dropped out out of frustration with ridiculous emphasis on calculus and extremely poor algorithms teachers. I don't regret dropping out, I regret wasting a couple of years fighting that. But almost 15 years later I now find algorithms teaching in top universities completely out of touch with reality. Hardware changed drastically in the last decade and it seems they just gave up. It's turning into a cult of big-O theo…
You dropped out of college because of a "ridiculous emphasis on calculus" yet you are able to track and form opinions on the quality of "algorithms teaching in top universities"? I doubt it.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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#106I frequently get asked why I didn't do Computer Science as a degree. Before I even left school to go to University (I'm British) I was already running my first startup. (I was 16 and it was game hosting company. I peaked off at two full racks worth of physical servers (several hundred virtual servers)). At that time in my life, it wasn't even possible for me to have a computer science degree so this startup clearly w…
Take a look at: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
and: https://www.coursera.org/course/algo
to fill those gaps. I've taken both classes at my university and have learned more in the first few lectures of these free online classes than I learned all semester at university.
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#107I have a non-cs degree (film making) and I am a CS undergrad... Here in Brazil it is very hard to get a job without a diploma, no matter your resumé and past works.
I'm from Brazil (SP), I'm a computer engineering dropout studying / developing by myself for 1.5y and I'm having pretty great offers... Please contact me.
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#108I dropped CS after first year and majored in Pure Maths.
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#109I frequently get asked why I didn't do Computer Science as a degree. Before I even left school to go to University (I'm British) I was already running my first startup. (I was 16 and it was game hosting company. I peaked off at two full racks worth of physical servers (several hundred virtual servers)). At that time in my life, it wasn't even possible for me to have a computer science degree so this startup clearly w…
Take a look at: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto and: https://www.coursera.org/course/algo to fill those gaps. I've taken both classes at my university and have learned more in the first few lectures of these free online classes than I learned all semester at university.
Enrollment for all the Stanford Coursera offerings is currently closed. Are they expected to repeat in the near future?
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#110I dropped out after finishing 99% Computer Science and Engineering degree from OSU. I had two classes left but the senioritis was getting to me and I couldn't focus. I just wanted to get out there and do things. So far it's worked out OK, I have a decent job and I applied to this latest batch of ycombinator.
It was also my little form of rebellion. It's not the piece of paper that says you learned that matters, it's that you learned at all. Now that I'm out I can continue my autodidactism. For instance I just learned Go.