What I have experienced is that engineers without a degree learn in their free time the “fun” stuff: Golang, K8s, assembly, hacking, frameworks, sql, etc. They

What I have experienced is that engineers without a degree learn in their free time the “fun” stuff: Golang, K8s, assembly, hacking, frameworks, sql, etc. They usually don’t learn things like context-free grammars, logic, mutexes, the kind of stuff you learn at university. People with degrees and who also learn in their free time (like me) get to learn both: the fun stuff (now) and the foundations of computer science and software engineering (back then).