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		zaphar on Oct 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather T... Don't sell yourself short. I also am a college dropout with no formal Computer Science education and had limited professional developer experience and I worked at Google for 7 years. Google's whole business is built around hacking data and statistics. You may very well be exactly what they are looking for.

nerfhammer on Oct 6, 2014 | [–]

I know someone with a data science degree from a top school whom google recently passed on. No idea what they may have been really looking for.

icelancer on Oct 6, 2014 | [–]

Ah well. Too late anyway. Entrepreneurship bug can't keep me pinned down! Got out of software dev as a primary business.

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