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by patio11 5434 days ago
Pick someone you admire.

Do you admire them for their degree?

Do you admire them for their first job out of college?

If the answers are "No" and "No", then you probably shouldn't be worried all that much.

There are fields, times, and places in which one's academic pedigree opens or closes doors which are hugely relevant to one's career success. You are in a very fortunate field, time, and place in this regard.

P.S. Of all the people I admire in tech, the only one whose undergraduate education I'm aware of has no degree at all, and I only know that because he's sensitive about it and brought it up. Similarly, I'll bet you that probably 99.8% of the people who know me professionally, including everybody who has ever written me a check, could not tell you where I went to school.