Slightly misleading title: "w/o a CS degree" yet has a ECE degree. I went through the same ECE program at a different school and from the experience of my peers and myself, an ECE degree is treated just like a CS degree (but not the other way around). Also, she already has experience working as a PM at Microsoft.<p>If this was coming from some random X school with a completely unrelated degree or big name company on the resume, I would agree with title, otherwise, no.
I am EE graduate myself. But I majored in Electrical engineering aspect (electricity generation/transmission, power supply etc.), but not nothing to do with hardware/chips design. I started programming at 25.<p>I have found that my biggest weakness is not programming, but the interviews where they grill you on CS fundamentals. Did you have to prepare for that?