The head of my cs dept said something along the lines of "we wont teach you everything, but we will teach you how to teach yourself" The engineers I go to for

The head of my cs dept said something along the lines of "we wont teach you everything, but we will teach you how to teach yourself" The engineers I go to for advice are the ones that enjoy learning CS (and do so actively) From a hiring perspective, we look for passionate people as a baseline, but we're more skeptical of people without a cs degree. We have several rockstars without a cs degree, but it lowered their chances for us to give them an offer