Game programming IS hard. (Score 1)

Game programming IS hard. It is much harder than anything you will encounter in the typical IT world. Having a solid engineering foundation, whether from a university or acquired from experience, will be a major advantage. I regularly interview many candidates with CS/MS degrees and others with IT programming experience who are unable to pass our technical interview, which is NOT specific to games. I'm talking about your standard Algorithms, Data structures and OOP type of stuff.