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by solipsism 3485 days ago
You misread apparently. No one said anything about a CS degree. And your intuition is wrong. The Facebooks and the Googles are the companies who are confident enough in their screening that they don't care much about your formal education anymore.

CS fundamentals absolutely. CS degree nope.
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legoartwork 3485 days ago
Should I be able to get an interview with a pure math degree, but data structures + algorithms study on the side?
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solipsism 3485 days ago
Sure. Just put something on your resume that gives a recruiter some confidence in your capability with respect to those data structures and algorithms. A computer science degree is only one way of doing that.
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gwbas1c 3485 days ago
You misread apparently. "self-taught devs w/o college degrees?"
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