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🔀 Career Switchers

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  • 🔀 Career Switchers2 min

    How I Went from Marketing Intern to Full-Time Engineer (No Degree)

    A self-taught programmer with two years of an economics degree landed a marketing internship at a startup, then slowly shifted responsibilities toward coding over six months until the team offered a full-time engineering role. He dropped out of college to take the offer and has since found that one engineering job title erases most questions about formal education. He shares candid lessons about the fundamentals gap self-taught developers still need to close.

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