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I am sorry that CS education has not worked out for you so far. I want to emphasize the "so far" part of that. I hope that that's hyperbole at the end of your post. If not, I have to encourage you to reach out to friends and family, and maybe take a break from interviews. You can get in touch with me (email in my profile).

There is a huge amount of randomness in interviews. I usually say this as a bad thing, but in your situation now, it can actually be a good thing. Interviewers look for a WIDE variety of traits. Most ask algorithmic questions. But if you do enough interviews, you will find a company that values the skills that you have (I am assuming here that you can program productively). Smaller companies particularly have more variance in what they are looking for. I encourage you to just treat this as a numbers game, and get applications out to as many small and medium companies as you can.

This sucks. But it can and does get better. After you have a few years of experience under your belt, companies will look at you in a very different light.

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Also want to add that we made Triplebyte to help people like you. We'd love to have you apply.



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