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

Drawn from what Patrick McKenzie said

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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.

What Patrick McKenzie actually said

  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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