It’s not an issue getting a job if you’re smart and can manage to get some experience under your belt, and you can pass the technical interview. That said, I s

It’s not an issue getting a job if you’re smart and can manage to get some experience under your belt, and you can pass the technical interview. That said, I still wish I would have had the opportunity to go to school. I’m increasingly finding I don’t have the same kind of network had I went to school. It’s possible to build a network while you are working but it’s much harder because you are at the mercy of your employer and the work power dynamic is different than university. You are also at the mercy of your employer and the people he chooses to surround you with, and don’t have as much control or exposure as I feel you would in university. At least for me employers always talk a big game when it comes to investing in their employees education but I’ve never experienced that personally. They are too focused on the sprint, the next sprint, the quarterly OKR’s and with most of their employees not lasting more than a year or two why invest in someone long term? This puts all the effort on the employee who must then learn on their own time in addition to working and making their boss & co-workers happy. The last one is killer for me. Most of the people you meet at work aren’t entrepreneurial. I think there’s a reason why a lot of people start companies from people they know in school. Many of the people I’ve meet throughout my career in tech don’t even like tech, they’re just working a job. I feel like at a university it would be easier to filter these people out of your professional network, where as at work you can be stuck with them for years. It’s easy to drop or add a class and be exposed to new people but try dropping a team or a boss.