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How a Google Engineer Landed a Job Without a Degree
In this debut episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect the story of Sarah Chen, a self-taught engineer who landed a job at Google without a traditional computer science degree. They examine her strategy: building a portfolio of five open-source contributions, networking through 40 informational interviews, and acing the system design round. Lucas breaks down the numbers behind her approach, including the 3.2% callback rate on cold applications versus 47% through referrals. Luna pushes back on whether this is replicable or a survivor bias story. They also discuss the broader…
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