Yes. For the most part it's going to be about as successful as any other candidate. What I've recommended / done before is have this person serve more of enha

Yes. For the most part it's going to be about as successful as any other candidate. What I've recommended / done before is have this person serve more of enhanced technical support role, while also taking part in code reviews and ideation. The biggest threat is that they have very little knowledge of what's happening under the hood, or that based on their course don't truly understand core CS concepts like inheritance, abstraction. This can be really dangerous with PHP developers (whether educated traditionally, by a business, or on Coursera / CodeAcademy) where people teach various levels of frameworks.