[no_degree_a102]

American Express, Capital One, and Canonical to name a few.

Aside from Unicorn and FAANG orgs self-taught is still predominantly forbidden.

[AnimalMuppet]

I'm self-taught. My first job I got lucky (or the grace of God, depending on your perspective). After that, it never mattered. I had experience, references, a track record.

And the older you get, the longer the track record, and the more it outweighs the piece of paper.

I'm primarily an embedded guy, though. If you're doing web apps, or desktop, or games, or phones, or high performance, or finance programming, your mileage may vary.

[no_degree_a102]

I'm happy to hear your success story but that has not been my experience. I am only able to get into FAANGs.

[epolanski]

Nobody cares about degrees much after you've started working.

Sure, there's very very big orgs where it matters for several positions, but it's not predominantly forbidden.

[no_degree_a102]

If this is true, we should keep these starred somewhere so self-taught devs don't have to waste time applying to orgs that care otherwise.