meh. There's a lot of really good self-taught engineers but this seems like a weird thing to bring up.

I worked with someone that was self-taught, them vs 2 of use with more formal education, we had a difference of opinion on how something should be be handled so our boss at the time basically posed a contest that whoever could get it done first would be what was implemented. Of course they outperformed and got it out faster.

1. That's a horrible way of deciding what gets pushed, pitting developers against each other. 2. The resulting code was awful to read and very procedural. Written by the same developer that made a god awful hero function.