@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@taylonr said:
I know a company that thinks long and hard before hiring any CS/IT people for development.
I have met/hired/fired an awful lot of degreeed people in my time, it is amazing how many are still completely useless no matter what piece of paper hangs on their wall.
That's fair enough, I know a lot of people at my university were useless. At my particular university, these people didn't manage to get degrees, but I can't claim that would be true for everywhere.
Having a degree isn't proof that you are a great software developer.
However, the idea that people who have degree are somehow worse/more stupid then those that don't is absurd,
There's a lot of theory I learned at Uni that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. A formal education covering things like graph theory, formal methods and the such was very useful to me.
I, and certainly my employers, are always a little wary of developers without degrees because there's no reason to think they've ever heard of these things or ever had a need to look them up.
I'd say that you get good developers with degrees, and bad developers with degrees. You also get good developers without degrees and bad developers without degrees.