[gshdg]

When education is used as a hiring filter, it’s usually at the resume stage, where other signals are week. Once you’ve reached on-site it’s about what you know and can do, not what pieces of paper you possess.

Being self-taught as a programmer myself, and knowing what’s involved in that, I’m a little bit in awe of anyone who managed to learn programming with no more than an elementary school formal education. I can’t speak for random FAANG interviewers, but hopefully they’ll also be suitably impressed.

Maybe save it to share until you’ve already wowed them with your skills, rather than sharing up front, which might cause them to evaluate you based on biases or stereotypes?