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First, when you read "Bachelors in CS or Equivalent!?", the equivalent part usually means "work experience". So if you don't have a CS degree you need the equivalent work experience.

I'm a non-college grad and I think my career up to now has been pretty successful. It was hard for me, much harder than it should have been if I had a CS degree. I had to work 2 or 3 times harder than anyone else just to keep up at times. I found that it wasn't the course material that I lacked since I read pretty much the same books as them. What took me a long time to realize is that all my colleagues were using the same terminologies and most importantly were "thinking" the same way. The majority of them had either a CS or a physics degree of some kind.

Now that I'm in a position of hiring many developers I'm not against hiring individuals without degrees, but it definitely helps. I've hired two developers without degrees. Both are super bright people but are struggle to keep up as I did.

All that said, IMO it's who you know not what you know, no matter of your background. You can get a job in a "big company" without a CS degree if you have the skills and you know the right people. I did it by attending a bunch of meet-ups to find people with the same interests as me. I made friends that were working for these "big companies" who got me interviews, etc...

I would stay in college if I were you. I didn't go but should have.