He earned a first-class CS degree on Coursera for £17k — a PhD holder in the thread calls his own 11 years a waste (notesbylex.com)
The write-up is concrete: ~3 years 9 months, ~£823 per module, three modules swapped for Coursera certificates, tax-deductible, remotely proctored with Inspera, one group project sabotaged by "ghost" members — and a first-class result he judges worth it.
The thread turns it into a referendum on the credential itself: eleven years of CS degrees called "the biggest waste of time," against recruiters who say the degree is non-negotiable table stakes.
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