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by FellowTraveler 4835 days ago
If you need to hire 2 people, and you have 200 resumes, the first thing you do is throw out all the ones with misspellings and without a degree.

Other than that, the degree isn't that important, compared to the skill-set and work history.

The pure ability can be gained just from Google, Wikipedia, and practice at home. So can all the theoretical knowledge.