Not completely random, but by my estimation being self-taught fully 40-60% of engineering organizations (trending higher as they get bigger) care much more deeply about academic CS than they do about whether you&#x27;re able to ship a product. Those companies are looking for people who fit a mold (a generalized interface) so they can scale their teams out. Startups and smaller companies tend to value people who are flexible and can learn new things very quickly and are less likely to test you on alg analysis and are much more likely to throw you an unfamiliar problem and see how you solve it.