tl;dr - Yes. Studying is still very important and valued by a lot of companies. I'd recommend to study in something else "complimentary" that passionate you an

tl;dr - Yes. Studying is still very important and valued by a lot of companies. I'd recommend to study in something else "complimentary" that passionate you and learn/improve in software engineering outside school to have a more diversified skillset. That's what I did 4 years ago, landed my first software engineer job and now had the opportunity to move to London because of that!