no, you don't. if anything education is a meme at this point. unless you are coming from some place like mit, i completely disregard applicants educational background. i have seen enough "fresh out" grads come through to know that it means fuck all when it comes to doing the work. i trust people who went to a $4k bootcamp for 6 months and actually produced something. the reality is people want do-ers, not academics. the phd level shit is only useful for higher positions when you are getting into really specialized domains like ml + ai. if you just want to be a code monkey and make decent pay the bar is pretty low. it's just that most people who graduate can't actually code and build shit. they would have been better served building 1-2 hobby projects a year for those 4-5 years instead of getting raped by tuition.
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