[jart]

There's no point in going to university anymore when you can just go straight into big tech. If you're doing anything mathematical, your late teens and early twenties are going to be some of your most productive years. Why should universities benefit from those years when they don't do frontier research anymore and have degenerated into quasi religious institutions that hand out credentials to anyone with a pulse in order to get rich shackling you with debt? Big tech will literally give you money to be educated.

[ndiddy]

> There's no point in going to university anymore when you can just go straight into big tech.

Assuming wanting to work at big tech is a goal, I'm not aware of any of the big tech companies recruiting for entry level roles outside of colleges. The "boot camp"/"hire anyone with a pulse" period was a ZIRP era anomaly.

[999900000999]

In the free money era the only boot camp grads who I know got jobs already had 4 year degrees.

If you got lucky you got a junior dev or QA position at a small dev shop. Unless you were some kind of known prodigy no one got a FAANG job out of highschool with no degree or experience.

[mixmastamyk]

No one (statistically) is getting hired for a coveted job today without a degree. The first thing they check; without and you go straight to /dev/null.