In my experience they're often not that favorable to self-taught developers either. Even after I had years of experience under my belt I'd have people telling

In my experience they're often not that favorable to self-taught developers either. Even after I had years of experience under my belt I'd have people telling me to take a big demotion to work at their small company, or acting like they were amazed I solved a simple coding problem for them. Not insurmountable but a real phenomenon.