> The latter will be better prepared to take on the challenges as a software engineer at most startups. Are you sure? As a non-CS degree holding senior engin

> The latter will be better prepared to take on the challenges as a software engineer at most startups. Are you sure? As a non-CS degree holding senior engineer who constantly has to tell recent grads very basic things that I taught myself in high school, I think this is the biggest and most problematic institutional bias. It's essentially cutting people out of the industry at like 14 years old - an age at which it was explained to me that I wouldn't be able to afford college and would otherwise not get in without nearly perfect grades in classes that didn't stimulate me at all.