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Academic credentials — grades, major, the prestige of the degree — barely matter to industry hiring.

Drawn from what Patrick McKenzie said

mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Patrick McKenzie

    Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11

    Your major and minor don’t matter.  Most decisionmakers in industry couldn’t tell the difference between a major in Computer Science and a major in Mathematics if they tried.

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