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It's Like Being A Scuba Diver Without Certification

computer science github stack overflow credentials Tech industry Imposter syndrome Gatekeeping Self taught Bootcamp Ron swanson

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1 year ago 286,858 views 0 shares

It's Like Being A Scuba Diver Without Certification

self-taught-memes, computer-science-memes, credentials-memes, bootcamp-memes, github-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The eternal CS degree debate, summarized perfectly by Ron Swanson's energy. Self-taught devs showing their GitHub profiles to gatekeepers like "I can do what I want." Meanwhile, bootcamp grads and Stack Overflow power users are nodding vigorously in the background. The industry's obsession with credentials is hilarious when half the senior devs can't remember their algorithm classes anyway. Your ability to Google error messages and understand the docs is the real certification here.

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