Yes, absolutely, but the advantage is far more social than technical. There exists a common knowledge and experience to computer science education that is compl

Yes, absolutely, but the advantage is far more social than technical. There exists a common knowledge and experience to computer science education that is completely absent from being self-taught. That results in superior compatibility for candidate hiring, especially for junior developers. That education establishes a common baseline of accepted practice. Many self-taught developers tend to have a stronger technical understanding of the work and problem solving in general compared to formally educated developers but it’s hard to tell as an outside observer. The reason why self-taught developers may have a technical advantage comes down to theory of practice as opposed to theory in general, which means understanding of how things actually work as opposed to how they should work. That difference tends to frame perspectives in accordance to anchoring bias. Note: I am a self-taught developer.