This goes both ways. I think the vast majority of my colleagues who got into CS later post-college did it because they needed a job, and that's where jobs were.
> Self Taught -> Already is curious, be default, so 99%-100% are curious.
There is some of this but IME that % is half your estimate, if not lower.
It could be different in today's market because CS IS NOT where a lot of jobs are, and my observations are based on when it was very very hot, so there's that.
But, no matter what you or I say anecdata is not data, but in my 30+ years of doing this, I find these broad generalizations mostly wrong.
> Self Taught -> Already is curious, be default, so 99%-100% are curious.
There is some of this but IME that % is half your estimate, if not lower.
It could be different in today's market because CS IS NOT where a lot of jobs are, and my observations are based on when it was very very hot, so there's that.
But, no matter what you or I say anecdata is not data, but in my 30+ years of doing this, I find these broad generalizations mostly wrong.