alt Hacker NewsFor foundational knowledge, there's been high quality information for free from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc. out there for years. Just look there first. If you're beyond that, you're beyond the canon that you can "learn" and closer to needing to follow/participate in SOTA R&D. And if you need a more structured environment, that's why people go to school. Engineering jobs expect you're at the level of someone who's completed undergrad, minimum. Part of an undergrad degree is getting used to seeking out resources yourself and learning from them instead of having a teacher spoon-feed it.
Again I just don't have any idea of what training people expect. The entire job is basically "we might have some idea of what we want to do, but no one here knows the details. Go figure it out."
What kind of guided learning would you want? How to solve problems? That's what 16 years of school was for!
Often doesn’t matter. Fancy degree gets an interview in this job market. Not, “I read a bunch for free.”
The explosion of stacks means it’s hard to keep everything in your head at once. Lookup is routine but will sink you as a candidate.
Personally not great under the gun in adversarial interviews, so my extensive self learning is not well highlighted.