Glad to see this being reflected in hiring nowadays, especially considering how damn unaffordable college is now.

There’s a fuck ton of people out there, especially in tech fields, who know a ton about something, usually because they have a bunch of personal experience messing with it, sometimes from a young age, (think: people who learn to program as kids because of Minecraft mods and now they’re highly proficient, people who are very skilled at troubleshooting tech because they were the go-to tech person for their family and friends, etc) who don’t necessarily have a degree, but might know a lot about a topic that could be useful in a given job.

If I wanted to hire a programmer, I’m gonna pick the person with years and years of experience starting when they were a child with a large portfolio of solid prior works over someone who just graduated college with a degree and has a base level knowledge of programming, because at that point, skills matter more than the degree itself.