Mostly a C student through all of my years of school, some B’s in topics I enjoyed (eg: Business, Physics). Accepted directly into my University’s CS program,

Mostly a C student through all of my years of school, some B’s in topics I enjoyed (eg: Business, Physics). Accepted directly into my University’s CS program, first year was pretty difficult. During the first summer I started working for a local tech company, they wanted to keep me on past summer so I stayed. A year later I was interviewing with Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Uber all at the same time (no clue how my LinkedIn drew attention). Now I’ve been with AWS for 8 years as a sr. engineer, no degree. I learn best by doing, so I followed the paths that would enable my learning. For me, studying and testing never worked well.