One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree

Re:One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College... by aristus on Thursday February 26, 2009 @10:25PM (#496791)

At my first Valley startup job I was the first hire (out of 30) who didn't have a degree. I gather there was a long discussion about it before I was hired.

I missed out on some things, especially getting to know good hackers, and I've probably been paid less over the years. But it hasn't hurt me much. I am under 30 and I have almost 20 years of work experience.

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Re:One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College... by tptacek on Thursday February 26, 2009 @11:25PM (#496840)

I wound up in the same situation in an interview in 2000. They asked me to do Towers of Hanoi nonrecursively. I think I refused. Didn't get the gig. Things worked out anyways (ironically, I wound up at a spinoff of UMich, working for a professor and his postdoc).

If you don't have a degree and you go interview at (what turns out to have been) a Stanford spinoff, brush up on your useless CS 101, is I guess my life lesson there.

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