Don't worry about 1-2 years at the start of your career. You will easily pick up what they have learned in the industry, but it will take them a decade to pick

Don't worry about 1-2 years at the start of your career. You will easily pick up what they have learned in the industry, but it will take them a decade to pick up maybe 1/4 of what you learned in a CS degree. Granted that will he the most important stuff, but there will still be things you know that they will probably never know. As a self taught developer I struggled for years to teach myself mathematics and eventually enrolled in the Open University. The lesson I learned is that theory is best learned in college, especially maths. The people who taught themselves this stuff took many generations to figure it out.