Works as backend developer for 2 years now; Almost fails simple university algorithm course.

I'm contemplating my whole life and career choice right about now.

thats the difference between academic programmer and programmer

also
computer scientist != programmer

Don't worry, I actually have no degree in anything important except middle school and now I am the CEO of a company I just founded seven years ago that feeds more than ten people and I still can teach stuff to all the "academic programmers" that join our company. 👌

(And I could fix every bug in every project myself theoretically)