[user5994461]

I can't find the source again.

Instead, here some numbers showing that 76% of ALL Google employees have a degree. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/this-tech-company-has-the-mo...

The saying that one doesn't need a degree to get a tech job is nonsense. Do the test: Ask one guy working in one of the major tech company how many of his direct neighbors have a degree, most likely it's all of them.

[majewsky]

> 76% of ALL Google employees have a degree.

> The saying that one doesn't need a degree to get a tech job is nonsense.

These statements directly contradict. 24% of ALL Google employees don't have a degree.

> Ask one guy working in one of the major tech company how many of his direct neighbors have a degree

I know that I was hired into my current role without having a CS degree at the time [1}, based solely on my open-source portfolio.

[1] I now have a BSc in CS because I work part-time and attended university in parallel.

[user5994461]

The statements don't contradict. Read the source, the other 24% are marked as "unknown" status, not as not having a degree.

Furthermore, that's the statistics for the whole company. It's higher for tech jobs. It's higher for younger folks. It's higher in countries where degrees are affordable.