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by stiggz 5835 days ago
School requires you to show up 9-5 monday - friday, take initiative (homework, projects, etc), and make an effort (debatable). These skills transfer well into working for any size of company. Self-educated people are great workers, but they might tend to be lone-wolves, rockstar, or wizard programmers who work well by themselves but can't hack it in a group of (college educated) programmers. Software engineering is all about communication, there are tons of nerds, but nerds who can communicate are a valuable commodity.