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<h1 style="text-align: center;">how i got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] by Bill Mei @ billmei.net - Mei writes on how he worked his way up from learning msft front page to publish his science project in grade 7, to foregoing a formal CS education for business school and teaching himself programming, building a "consultancy" business,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] well written,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] lot of hustle, oodles of work, EX building feature prototypes as part of job application</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://billmei.net/blog/silicon-valley-job-search" target="_blank">https://billmei.net/blog/silicon-valley-job-search</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2017-03-17</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]&nbsp;</h2>
<p>My grade 7 science teacher wanted us to research a topic in physics and present it to the class. I hadn&rsquo;t used computers that much before, but our school just got new computers pre-installed with Microsoft FrontPage which I wanted to play around with.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I found myself, a 12-year-old kid with a keyboard, wielding enough power to thwart a $3.57 billion corporation.</p>
<p>In high school I was struggling to understand my linear algebra teacher so I looked online for tutorials. I found a YouTube playlist with a few hundred views by Sal Khan, a man whose voice was as soothing as his math lectures. He was by far the best teacher I ever met, and I didn&rsquo;t even know what he looked like&nbsp;</p>
<p>I was looking at universities. A major in Computer Science seemed logical; after all, programming interested me and thanks to Sal my best grades were in math class. But it didn&rsquo;t make sense: I would be crammed into a lecture hall with 400 other students listening to a professor who probably wasn&rsquo;t as articulate or interesting as Sal. Plus I had to pay the professor a few thousand dollars&mdash;whereas Sal was free.</p>
<p>I <strong>decided I would learn programming on my own</strong>, which allowed me to cut the price to zero and cut the time required in half, because I no longer needed to do homework whose purpose was not to challenge me and expand my knowledge but to rank me against my classmates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To this end, <strong>I attended the Smith School of Business at Queen&rsquo;s University,</strong> which is widely known to be the best business school in Canada. The reputation is deserved for good reason: we would learn real business skills.</p>
<p>The <strong>unspoken aspiration of most people who attend business schools (and laws schools) is to gain status and wealth by landing internships at companies with mahogany conference room tables</strong> and marble lobby fountains.</p>
<p>But think about what you actually do at these internships: <strong>you&rsquo;re not trying to win new customers and you&rsquo;re not fighting to get product to market. You&rsquo;re being paid to format PowerPoints for your boss.</strong> <span style="background-color: #ffff99;"><strong>You&rsquo;d learn a lot more by trying to build your own McKinsey instead of working for McKinsey,&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Therefore, I went ahead and started my own McKinsey.</strong> Instead of looking for internships, I started introducing myself as a consultant. <strong>If I could get people to pay money for my work, it would grant me credibility that would be better than any credibility siphoned off the brand name of a huge company</strong>&mdash;a company that wouldn&rsquo;t care if I&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/young-banker-struggled-with-quitting-goldman-weeks-before-death" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dropped dead tomorrow</a>.</p>
<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>x] #&nbsp;5654 -&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=5654" target="_blank">best-of-hacker-news-2017-03-14</a>&nbsp;</li>
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