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I am one of them. I have no college degree of any kind and bested CS grads in an interview.

• commandlinefan 7y ago
  > I'd like to see some proof that there's a large pool > I am one of them You, yourself, are a large pool? Or you, yourself are one instance of a fairly small pool (like OP suggests).
  • TrinaryWorksToo 7y ago
    I am proof a pool exists.
    • filoleg 7y ago
      A pool of statistical outliers is not a "big pool" that the parent comment was referring too. There are quite a few brilliant software engineers I got a chance to work with who had no college education whatsoever, but they are very clearly outliers among very few. I strongly doubt there is some big untapped pool of engineers without degrees who are just being completely overlooked simply for not having a degree.
      • TrinaryWorksToo 7y ago
        How could we use Newton's flaming laser sword to settle our argument?