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Amarnath S16-Sep-24 3:42
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raddevus16-Sep-24 2:18
mvaraddevus16-Sep-24 2:18 
honey the codewitch wrote:
asked me to defend my lack of a BS degree.

That is entirely stupid line of interviewing. So, interviewer just wants to have an argument about, "Is it necessary to have a college degree?"


honey the codewitch wrote:
"I just whiteboarded all of your problems, because while you were struggling through English lit to round out your requirements, I was coding, so defend your degree first - after all I didn't pay 80k for mine"

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Of course there can be value in a college degree, but there is nothing that 100% proves you'll be a good dev anyways.

Maybe they should make their litmus test: Have you read the entire The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth?
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