There is no way you could even get remotely looked at with out being a rock star that came to their attention through some other means. No one applying cold with no degree is getting past the trashcan.

It's not that hard to notice this, just google "{university} {degree} syllabus" and you can see all the courses that the student will take.

In my case, I have CS degree and work as SWE but I probably would've been fine with just my Data Structures & Algos course as I already had programming experience.

Are computational theory, circuits 101, discrete math, logic 101, etc necessary for being a good SWE? Probably not, but they do probably expand your mind a bit.

This has always been true in tech. Degree’s pave way to leadership but skills opens doors.

If you have skills, you can get a job. If you have a degree, you can get a job. If you can GDB, you can get a job. You just have to go out and get one.

This isn't really news... 11y ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/UNzUl30ZUe

I agree with the premise of this article but too often has the argument been used to discourage going to college. You don't have to have a degree but it's also not a negative factor in your career.

Why is this a thing to be surprised by? How many of the tech industry's biggest corps were started by college drop outs leaving them with no degree? The fact that they put needing a degree in the requirements for their job listings is something that has always been laughable to me. A degree pretty much just that you are more than likely in debt beyond belief and you didn't have much else to do so you kept with it long enough to finish. That's probably a bit cynical, but we all make fun of MBAs while cherishing CSE degrees??? Put someone to work that shows they can do the work regardless of having or not a sheep skin. If they can't cut it, get rid of them and do it again.

Cool to see that doing things and outcomes are more valued than learning theory :)

This is not very surprising. I've always thought that it's more of correlation than causation. If you're a good problem solver, then there is a good chance that you are probably good at both college admission and software engineering. So companies have been using it as their proxy for hiring because... why not. I'm not saying college curricula are useless, but this dependency on (imperfect) correlation might have caused significant opportunity costs for talent acquisition and now companies are slowly acknowledging it.

The grammar and structure of this is weird like soen trash AI wrote it.

> Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree

That explains the lack of engineering and test in today's software products.

"If it compiles, ship it. If the user finds bugs, we can always make a new release"