[scarface74]

Well, for a company that wants someone to hit the ground running in their chosen stack, your degree is useless as well as your ability to do well in hackathons, and unless they are looking for an iOS developer, so are your iOS skills.

Most jobs don’t need or care that someone can do leetCode or invert a binary tree.

[fernandotakai]

yup :/

i mean, i never did well at hackathons, never got first prize at anything and i'm not graduated.

but, i do have real-world-experience with early/mid/late stage startups as well as corp jobs (i did a project for a local bank working with mainframes). due to that, most companies don't even care about my lack of graduation -- but they do care that i know when to cut corners, when to do crunch-time/overtime, how to take care of customers (including answering support emails!).

real world experience is always much more important.

[walshemj]

A lot of recruitment processes do unfortunately

[scarface74]

That’s why I avoid those companies and I’m both in an area of the country where it’s not part of the recruitment process and have nurtured a network over a couple of decades that allows me to jump through fewer hoops.