from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

Things I assumed to be important for a sw engineering career when I was in college: - Name of my school - My grades / standing relative to the rest of the class - Recommendations from professors What mattered far-far more: - Build stuff - Keep learning on the job & outside of it

My parents brought me up with the “work hard, get good grades and you’ll be fine.” They meant well. Still, no one *ever* cared about my grades the moment I graduated. It was the coding I did on interviews (mostly self-taught) and side projects that mattered 100x more.

College benefits are completely different to what I imagined they’d be: - A group of friends who have tech careers (after college it’s hard to make new friends) - A wide alumni network - Believing I can understand anything w effort (after finally cracking Fourier transformations)