[system_32]

Slightly misleading title: "w/o a CS degree" yet has a ECE degree. I went through the same ECE program at a different school and from the experience of my peers and myself, an ECE degree is treated just like a CS degree (but not the other way around). Also, she already has experience working as a PM at Microsoft.

If this was coming from some random X school with a completely unrelated degree or big name company on the resume, I would agree with title, otherwise, no.

[stchangg]

Thanks for the comment! Hm, I'm not sure what school you went to, but an ECE degree at Duke is not like an EECS degree at MIT. It leans much more towards the electrical engineering side of things, and very, very few of my peers (in fact, I can't think of any who didn't get a joint CS degree) became programmers afterwards. You can check out the curriculum here: http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrad/bse-degree-planning.

Edit:

I'd like to also add this point from my blogpost, which can perhaps give a better sense of my ability before I applied:

> Unlike many software developers, I didn’t start programming when I was 10. I started in college at the ripe age of 18 and took a grand total of 4 programming courses during my 4 years there. I was not a stand-out student in any of my programming or engineering courses. No teacher saw promise in me, took me under their wing, or mentored me to greatness.

[dotrob]

I liked your article -- I appreciated the different perspective it presents (kind of outside-looking-in on the coding/startup job).

The article also led me on to "Invisible Burden" and "Why Stories Are So Important" -- great stuff. Thanks for writing those.