I am self taught. My degree is actually in finance. At my current position, there is another guy slightly older than me who does have a CS degree and the differ

I am self taught. My degree is actually in finance. At my current position, there is another guy slightly older than me who does have a CS degree and the difference between him and I is not a lot. I may be slightly biased, but he even admits, most of the development we do, he has been self-taught/ from previous jobs. I don't think this is just a CS thing either. In any profession, you have those who graduate and learn for their first 6 months to a year out of school and then stop self development. They literally repeat the same experience over and over for the rest of their career. In the end, anyone who is very successful, will be 'self-taught', school only provides a foundation to build on. It's what you do after that matters. If you compared two developers, each with 5 years of experience, one with a CS degree and one without, the one with the CS degree will not always be the better developer.