>Barriers To Entry There's another group facing barriers to entry in the tech world: those without CS degrees. There are plenty of people without a CS degree w

>Barriers To Entry There's another group facing barriers to entry in the tech world: those without CS degrees. There are plenty of people without a CS degree who are talented, have natural aptitude, work hard, and can certainly program who get blasted during technical interviews trying to do the "CS fundamentals" dance. I have a ECE degree (with a focus in software), and while I looked for jobs it was and still is tough. And I don't mean OOP concepts or datastrucures. I mean trivia - whiteboard questions where the "correct" answer is Monte Carlo, or how to manipulate the call stack in C. 99% of entry-level jobs don't even get close to the depth of these concepts. I never learned them in school. I learned them on my own time, but only after flopping hard. I know that knowledge of deeper concepts are important to becoming a well-rounded developer, but they're far from the skills needed to succeed in day-to-day development work. You can be an excellent developer and not know what P=NP even means. It's irrelevant.