Personally speaking, CS degree has been a negative indicator. Autodidacts, and people coming from math, physics, engineering, finance have all been outstanding

Personally speaking, CS degree has been a negative indicator. Autodidacts, and people coming from math, physics, engineering, finance have all been outstanding hires. CS grads have typically been strong on opinions, weak on everything else. The whole program is just too "meta"--and it is a huge negative! You can give an idea to an autodidact, or a math grad, or a real-science grad, and they will approach it with an open mind. Give the same idea to a CS grad, and God help you if it conflicts in any way with their indoctrination.