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How I Went From College Dropout to Google Software Engineer in About a Year – The Skew

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This is an autobiographical post about how I learned to code and got a job at Google, because everyone I know keeps asking me for one. You’re welcome to share it as widely as you like with wh…

This is an autobiographical post about how I learned to code and got a job at Google, because everyone I know keeps asking me for one. You’re welcome to share it as widely as you like with whoever you think might benefit from it. Arguably the most important thing was to get help from a psychiatrist for my previously-untreated ADHD. This whole process would have been impossible to navigate while untreated, and ADHD is more common than people think. If you think you might have ADHD (I am not a medical professional, but you can find a questionnaire to screen you here ), you should go see a

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