Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview

I went the other way. I did 4 years of computer engineering, wrote compilers, learnt about binary trees, linked lists, bubble sort, registers and flags inside CPU, big O notation and then I did a web development subject in the last semester of the last year and I fell in love with it. I'm a web developer now and I'm loving it. Haven't found a need for any of the stuff I learnt in those 4 years so the whole degree feels like a huge waste of time :( Good luck to the OP and I hope all that knowledge lands him an interesting job at Google but it's hard to find something more interesting that web development :P

This is the guy that wrote Google Interview University, previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649740