I didn't even graduate high school and had no means to afford a real education even if I had. I learned everything I know from tinkering with open source and th

I didn't even graduate high school and had no means to afford a real education even if I had. I learned everything I know from tinkering with open source and the break/fix cycle. In interviews it can be a real bummer to not have a degree because almost every business regurgitates the same live-coding tests and tests aren't the way I learn or excell. I learned most of what I know from google. Ironically google is also what lead me to the answers to the coding questions some of these companies repeatedly use which helps. However in the end since I'm up against CS students who are well versed in testing I just don't stack up in a lot of cases, so now I don't even bother interviewing with companies who can't take the time to interview me as an individual. I can completely understand why these well known .com's take this approach for efficiency but I personally don't think it's the best way. In the long run I feel learning from my experience rather then school is a real asset because I see things differently then a lot of CS students and I've had to be extremely versatile and adaptable to get to where I am. The 4 year head start on my peers helped too ;)