Currently, the existing form also has a bias - towards CS and top CS universities. Yet I keep working with great self-taught engineers from a variety of discipl

Currently, the existing form also has a bias - towards CS and top CS universities. Yet I keep working with great self-taught engineers from a variety of disciplines, some of whom don't even have degrees. Maybe a shift in hiring wouldn't be a bad thing. As for how, you could focus more on logical thinking, user experience considerations, technical writing, or other, softer skills. For a lot of grads, we already have to re-teach them the language, as universities don't seem to give marks for consistent style/using linters/unittesting/best practices/comments/writing documentation etc. In the time it takes to break these bad habits, you can definitely teach somebody who's technical and done a basic programming course a lot of things.