I am a software engineer, now engineering project manager for a FAANG. My degree was in humanities. Degree might matter for entry level jobs at established companies, but skill and hustle can get you in the door at smaller companies which you can then leverage to go bigger if you want. In my experience, after you get past the junior/entry level barrier, nobody cares about your degree after that. As an anecdote, one do the premier Ruby on Rails guys, one that literally wrote the definitive books on it, only graduated high school. My advice — dig deep and become an expert in something rather than trying to be good at everything. “Well rounded” might sound good on paper, but when I need an expert on a particular thing, I am looking for an expert in that particular thing — not simply a generalist. If you are really great at build systems for instance, I’ll hire you without any consideration as to degree or school. If I have an itch, I need to scratch it as quickly and skillfully as possible. If you are a great scratcher, I don’t care how you got there. I got my start at being really good with fixing test suite technical debt in Rails. I developed a minor reputation as someone who could rescue Rails projects that, pun intended, went off the rails. I had a profile on Dice.com and pretty soon, I was flooded with inquiries for high paying contract work. One of those contracts was to fix some esoteric thing for $major_tech_company — that then turned into a full time offer.

Be fearless. Don’t waste time worrying about what you haven’t done and start worrying about what you can do.