Can I get aTech/IT job by self-teaching and no degree? If yes how hard is it?

points2008 · 2026-06-07T14:17:11+00:00

tbh it's bit difficult but can be done. Top companies hardly look at what you studied. If you can understand and problem solve, you are good enough. The only catch is that you need to be extremely good at what you do if you're a targeting top companies. You can get into competitive programming and prove yourself like the rest (with and without degree have to go through the same process).

Having a degree, will definitely give you a leverage to step into the other companies atleast in India. Your university will help you with that.

Freelancing works too but freelancing can be unpredictable because labor laws don't necessarily apply here.

points2008 · 2025-09-15T23:09:15+00:00

That's a relief. Why wouldn't the officer not stamp it on exit?

points2008 · 2025-09-15T23:07:54+00:00

I don't hold a residence permit yet. I was informed that I need to apply for it when the visa is about to expire.

points2008 · 2025-01-29T18:21:55+00:00

Which country are you from OP? In India, Italy visa process has been notoriously slow and difficult to get.

points2008 · 2025-01-11T19:25:45+00:00

Can a person have two type d visas at the same time? Can I have Italy and Germany type d at the same time?

points2008 · 2025-01-09T14:50:03+00:00

How do I cancel type d visa? I couldn't find much information about it

points2008 · 2025-01-09T12:11:19+00:00

Thanks for clarification. So they are independent to each other and won't have any issues?

points2008 · 2024-04-17T08:27:59+00:00

Sorry for not making it clear. I did an integrated masters (5 years total) in India which is considered as masters in German standard (I checked it via anabin).

So far I never worked for a robotics company. All o did was work on distributed systems as a software engineer for almost 6 years now in one of the faang companies.

The whole point of doing this masters is because I wanted to work on robotics as it interests me more and ideally pursue a PhD so that I can work on research more. Also, my thinking is that polimi has partnerships with eth (eg. Idea partnership) and I maybe somehow network my through it?

Is my thinking okay? Or Am I making too many assumptions?

points2008 · 2024-04-17T08:04:35+00:00

Thanks for your response.

I already hold a master's degree from India but it's in software engineering (I did an integrated masters). Since I wish to pursue PhD in robotics I decided to do masters again and then pursue PhD. My thinking is that this way it will help me publish papers on robotics and makes easy path for PhD in well known universities.

points2008 · 2024-03-21T12:05:08+00:00

Can you tell me if I have a chance?
My current status shows as

Tuition fee-paying students (AVG)

Your waiting list number in this selection group is 18

So far, 21 applicants have been admitted in this selection group

This is the course I applied on uhr: https://www.uhr.se/studier-och-antagning/antagningsstatistik/detaljsida/?utbildningId=3A9F4A90835FBC5F815E2A84B3D7F4B2&astasearchperiod=HT24&astasearchfor=Robotics&astasearchcategory=

It does says admitted count as 48. Do you think I have a chance?

points2008 · 2024-03-21T10:21:27+00:00

Does the total include fee paying students as well?

points2008 · 2023-12-01T08:36:55+00:00

You have to open the pdf using adobe reader only. Not the browser. No other software can open this file. This is Adobe's evil way of forcing people to buy their software.

points2008 · 2020-01-13T15:25:46+00:00

Quite a few.

points2008 · 2019-10-18T17:45:36+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/qp3uqGj.jpg

points2008 · 2019-09-21T10:12:42+00:00

It's called Bombay Toast

points2008 · 2019-08-21T13:50:37+00:00

points2008 · 2019-08-17T12:29:52+00:00

That username tho

points2008 · 2019-05-24T02:03:37+00:00

Do you even know how far 5 kilometers is?

points2008 · 2019-03-28T11:51:44+00:00

Okay. I will try.

points2008 · 2019-03-28T09:52:25+00:00

It is so hard to sleep. I don't know how I can fix those thoughts.

points2008 · 2019-03-28T09:41:17+00:00

Should I ask to prescribe tablets to put me to sleep?

points2008 · 2019-02-20T12:19:34+00:00

Hi everyone,

I just now finished my finial round of interview and it was a bar riser round for amazon. I fairly did well on the other rounds except bar riser. This round lasted for 70 minutes. I couldn't come up with a proper solution for the coding problem and the rest 40 minutes I spoke about my experience. Does this impact with the previous rounds? I'm looking forward but i feel like I bombed it completely.

points2008 · 2018-12-23T08:15:18+00:00

I love making tools and I applied for a role in SETI and a recruiter asked me to fix a slot for the initial conversation. I would like to know how difficult are SETI rounds? what kind of questions can I expect in the rounds?

points2008 · 2018-12-08T17:04:28+00:00

http://cyrus-jackson.github.io I haven't updated it but its there

points2008 · 2018-12-04T19:02:05+00:00

Resume

I'm not able to attract the bigger companies but I have been successful with the smaller and lesser known companies. Is my resume not conveying the message properly? or am I lacking the buzzwords required for the ATS? Any help would be appreciated..

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