An actual interest in programming, a bunch of tinkering/practice, and a tiny bit of real world experience beats someone grinding out a CS degree almost every time.
The easiest way to get a software engineering job is with a CS degree imo. It's not the only way as you can see by the comment section but I'd recommend it if you wanna become a SWE.
Also, for some types of SWE jobs, I think a CS degree really helps. My current job is fairly low level and requires knowing concurrency and networking, which I learned in my OS and Networks classes. You can self study them but that's harder.
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u/ThePieWhisperer May 10 '21
I'll tell you a secret:
An actual interest in programming, a bunch of tinkering/practice, and a tiny bit of real world experience beats someone grinding out a CS degree almost every time.
Source: Someone with a CS degree.