[jamescampbell]

In my experience, every developer that I hired self-taught was 10x better at solving problems and getting things done themselves than traditionally taught.

[Etheon]

I heard that a lot, but the impostor syndrome is always strong when you didn't do anything publicly before!

[d33lio]

I second this. I went to college to study CS but most of my time learning to program was largely "self taught" lol.