I have 20 years of experience as well, and my experience (personally and in hiring others) has been that those 4 years and tens of $1000s committed were all but a complete waste. As a rule, I've seen boot camp grads perform better out of the gate and in the long run than grads from some of the best CS programs in the nation.
Who fares even better? The self-taught, whether or not they spent a even day in university or boot camp.
Formal education (and certification, a complete racket in tech) is so irrelevant to what makes a good dev that I replaced my education and certs sections with this to push back against the obsession:
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I have 20 years of experience as well, and my experience (personally and in hiring others) has been that those 4 years and tens of $1000s committed were all but a complete waste. As a rule, I've seen boot camp grads perform better out of the gate and in the long run than grads from some of the best CS programs in the nation.
Who fares even better? The self-taught, whether or not they spent a even day in university or boot camp.
Formal education (and certification, a complete racket in tech) is so irrelevant to what makes a good dev that I replaced my education and certs sections with this to push back against the obsession: