What Gergely Orosz thinks about education

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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1. 11 Oct 2026, 20:14 UTC

   Our readingData-structures-and-algorithms (DSA) interviews were always meant to filter for college education plus a willingness to learn something pointless.

   Their wordsDSA was always meant to be a filter for a mix of college education + willingness to learn something pointless

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