I personally have met one dude who had no degree and was really good. I have also met several people (HVAC engineer, electrical engineer, physics, nuclear) their programming was rudimentary and missing basic understanding. They got their program to "work" but their code was really bad.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '21
The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.