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Originally Posted by tical
I don't think this is entirely true... I didn't have a degree and fit right in at 18 at a large consulting firm in SF.
After about 2 years I had people with degrees I was the lead for... it all depends on how ambitious the person you hire is.
I always wanted to learn & it was a huge passion for me... especially since I started @ 48k right out of high school in 1999!
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There are exceptions, of course.
Still, education does serve a real and important purpose. Self-taught programmers very often keep making mistakes if those mistakes don't result in actual errors. They lack guidance, and while some are able to get past that, many simply get stuck in bad coding practices without ever knowing that they are, in fact, following bad coding practices.