My anecdote: I have a H.BSc. in Biomedical Sciences and my only university course was Intro to Programming. I've worked as a programmer at start-up in Waterlo

My anecdote: I have a H.BSc. in Biomedical Sciences and my only university course was Intro to Programming. I've worked as a programmer at start-up in Waterloo, won a series of international programming competitions that had a decent number of CS competitors and done a fair bit of contract programming for some decent sized organizations.