If you subscribe to the idea that colleges/universities teaches how to think - and how to study, and not a (set of) subject, she has a BS+1 year of programming specialization.
In that sense, having good communication skills and some programming experience, on top of being good at "getting stuff done" is better than what they'd get out of an average CS graduate. Put in other terms, current CS curricula don't serve these companies well, because they yield people who are deeply technical, but bring neither good communication skills nor necessarily familiarity with the tools used by them.