That's really impressive but you sell yourself short. You did do the college stuff just not in CS but in a related difficult field. And then you had ultra high

That's really impressive but you sell yourself short. You did do the college stuff just not in CS but in a related difficult field. And then you had ultra high discipline to work hard for 3 years on top of that to break into software engineering. You didn't skip the process you just did it a bit differently but roughly in the same ballpark of difficulty,