Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Sahil Gaba, 33, was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical-engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba's shoes ...

And even the prodigy self-taught programmers can have some glaring holes in their knowledge just because they have never run into a particular concept before. A CS (or similar) degree from a decent ...

I really stopped giving anything about formal education (on an individual basis), but I guess if I was about to hire a self-taught programmer I would see red flags if the candidate wouldn't have an ...

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“From talking to self-taught programmers, I’ve found that one of their biggest sources of fear is the knowledge that they don’t have a degree. Non-traditional candidates are really intimidated by ...