[bandy]

Translation: Someone technical decided that they like your chops. Someone not-technical bounced you due to a checklist. If you held a degree in "Advanced Underwater Basketweaving", that would have been sufficient to tick off the "Has a degree" box.

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Maybe, and that's OK. I made my choice wrt the degree. I have my ideas on if that's right or wrong, but other people's are interesting.

[bandy]

And I made my choice. It's interesting to see how those doing the sifting care a lot about something that did or did not happen many, many, years ago, but in terms of actual job experience, only care about what you're doing in your most recent position. (This doubly applies to all of the "We don't hire the unemployed." companies)