I have worked with many people that have CS degrees who create far more problems in code and bug reports than positive productivity. Same in business & sales with people that have degrees yet can't spell, terrible grammar & communication skills and can't complete basic tasks, follow instructions or learn new things. It's a pandemic in all areas not just CS & s/w development; yet these folks manage to fool employers or are willing to take pay cuts to keep their job (or get one in the 1st place) at some sweat shop or poorly managed company.
Flip side, I've seen amazing work from people with CS degrees and those without a degree. The key difference is those with CS degrees tend to write code that are easier for the rest of the humans on the team to read, understand and debug.
There's always exceptions to the rule. It's certainly to the detriment of employers to adhere to strict hard rules for new hire entry requirements. Most of which comes down to employers that 1) have a large pool of resumes to pick from, so they can afford to be more selective, or 2) have very little clue on how to hire, mentor, train and fire staff or 3) a bit of both 1 & 2.
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I have worked with many people that have CS degrees who create far more problems in code and bug reports than positive productivity. Same in business & sales with people that have degrees yet can't spell, terrible grammar & communication skills and can't complete basic tasks, follow instructions or learn new things. It's a pandemic in all areas not just CS & s/w development; yet these folks manage to fool employers or are willing to take pay cuts to keep their job (or get one in the 1st place) at some sweat shop or poorly managed company.
Flip side, I've seen amazing work from people with CS degrees and those without a degree. The key difference is those with CS degrees tend to write code that are easier for the rest of the humans on the team to read, understand and debug.
There's always exceptions to the rule. It's certainly to the detriment of employers to adhere to strict hard rules for new hire entry requirements. Most of which comes down to employers that 1) have a large pool of resumes to pick from, so they can afford to be more selective, or 2) have very little clue on how to hire, mentor, train and fire staff or 3) a bit of both 1 & 2.