If you can afford to spend the time learning the full CS curriculum before you get your first job then sure, it's a good strategy. But most people don't have th

If you can afford to spend the time learning the full CS curriculum before you get your first job then sure, it's a good strategy. But most people don't have that luxury. I don't think it's at all related to ambition, it's about the quickest path to getting a job. If you want to be a top engineer you will need to learn CS stuff at some point, but you don't need to do it all at once right at the start.