I've not met anyone in the industry who wasn't self-taught. Nobody gets by in this line of work on just what they learned in computer science classes.
You simply will not sit next to someone who was lectured by someone else in detail on every aspect of the whole tech stack you are using.
To get through those CS classes themselves takes a lot of self-teaching. The lecturers are often terrible, and you have to rely on your own research to "get" the stuff enough to do the assignments and pass tests.
Yeah, this industry is by definition self-taught. Unless you're getting your boss to read you documentation and Google answers for you.
There are a lot of people who do a CS degree purely for money reasons, but I've found those people turn into PMs while the engineers have an actual interest in engineering. It's torturous to do a very mentally difficult job that you don't even want to do, and those people pivot to other adjacent careers.
You simply will not sit next to someone who was lectured by someone else in detail on every aspect of the whole tech stack you are using.
To get through those CS classes themselves takes a lot of self-teaching. The lecturers are often terrible, and you have to rely on your own research to "get" the stuff enough to do the assignments and pass tests.