During university I went from top 10 in my class to bottom quartile. I let the entire thing unravel and I couldn’t get into a master’s program with my grades and ended up working at a bank in IT at CIBC. IT as in fixing computers and installing Windows, not programming. Yes my ego was bruised too after university. Accept that it happened and FORGIVE YOURSELF.

All my friends that I was much smarter than got way better jobs. I interviewed at IBM and they gave me an aptitude test and the scorer said that I scored the highest he had ever seen from a university grad. But I didn’t get the job because I didn’t have enough experience in programming. I felt like shit. But you have to just persevere.

I studied my ass off after work and taught myself how to program. After 2 years of teaching myself I applied to for a programming job at Rogers and lied, saying I was programming at CIBC, and got my foot in the door as a programmer.

I worked there 2 years and then managed to get a job in the US and yadda yadda yadda, I’m at a FAANG.

Stop looking in the past.

You got into Shopify which has legit resume value. As a hiring manager I would not even notice if you had a math degree or CS degree, no one cares. Your Shopify experience trumps all. No one ever asked me about my GPA after I got experience.

You can get into the US via transfer or via H1B. Right now no one is hiring anyway but once they do in a year or two, your Shopify experience is more valuable. Just work your ass off at Shopify and have big impact and you will be rewarded.