There's a difference between self-taught to get a specific job done or self-taught to learn foundational CS / SE concepts, methods, etc. Some university course

There's a difference between self-taught to get a specific job done or self-taught to learn foundational CS / SE concepts, methods, etc. Some university courses are nothing more than a souped-up "Learning Java in 21 days" padded out to 3 years. Unfortunately there are lots of university trained "software engineers" who can barely compete with your average self-taught programmer. So in terms of getting a job it depends on the company's hiring and evaluation processes. Typically big corporates want degrees and many startups look at what you've already accomplished.