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Not "snakeoil" per say; employers will care about your history of education: but as an aspiring computer engineer currently in CC looking to move to a university, I've learned exactly 0 useful things at community college. Outside of the piece of paper you get at the end, it's all useless busywork, testing how much bullshit you can put up with. Everything useful I've learned in life has been for free, provided kindly by passionate communities. Hopefully this changes in university.
I think the value employers place in modern education in the United States is snakeoil, however.
This is very specific to your industry. Community Colleges are great for a lot of people.
What you're saying does not apply to Community Colleges only. It could apply to Universities with Computer Science departments. Granted, you'd learn more than 0 things in Universities; but for most of the stuff that's required in tech companies, yup, you could learn them for free online, given enough determination.