I mean yeah you will land a job but the chances of you doing so is less than a person with a degree and its already hard for the person who landed the degree.
As a hiring manager, if I want to hire a "self taught" dev or engineer the first thing I have to do is straight up tell the HR rep working the opening that is what I want. I have to directly tell them "send me resumes where people mention they are self taught" or "send me resumes for people who don't have a degree". Because if I don't say it they flat out won't do it. If I don't mention 4 year degrees at all they are just going to default to only sending resumes with the qualifications and the degrees. So the chances of a "self taught" person resume getting to me period is almost non existent unless I directly ask for it. And why would I directly ask for it?
The other option is that I am going to go look myself. I'm going to go to github or dev.to and be like "let me find some projects people are working on to see about hiring someone who is "self taught". Why would I do this, when I can just write down exactly what I am looking for and send an email to HR saying "send me resumes that look like this."
Not to discourage "self taught" people but there seems to be this movement to tell people they can land a job this way....and yeah you can...but you can also build your own wooden stove and heat all your food with chopped wood...or you could just go buy a microwave...
I wish the self taught people who never found a job posted youtube videos to so people can see just how much the deck is stacked against you.
