The claim you always hear is that "people with a CS background have much stronger fundamentals". I question that claim and believe that people perpetrating the

The claim you always hear is that "people with a CS background have much stronger fundamentals". I question that claim and believe that people perpetrating the meme have never actually hired and mentored software engineers themselves. There's in my experience very little correlation between being academically great and being highly productive in an unstructured environment such as that of an early stage startup. In fact if you didn't go to school, and still managed to learn a ton about your craft and the underlying principles, I'm much more impressed.