[nirvana]

I've found little correlation between diplomas and effectiveness as a programmer in my hiring. So, that includes people who are self taught. I may be in the minority, and I think that people who have diplomas sometimes have the opinion that anyone who didn't go thru the pain they went thru is missing something.

[coecoventures]

I'm an old dog so there were no CS classes at my middle school when I started programming. Naturally I have a bias towards those who took matters into their own hands and are self-taught.

[silverbax88]

ditto for me. I've actually found after years of interviewing that on average, self-taught programmers are almost always better. Not always true of course, but usually true.

[__rkaup__]

Interesting. I wonder how much that skews hiring, including in other fields.