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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2265225" data-attributes="member: 5100">Agree and disagree.  My degree is in Political Science, but I'm at least as competent as 80%+ of the programmers I've worked with and better than a large portion (don't take that as a big head, I'm usually the one asked to make sure something is done right).  In this regard, you're right and it's just a pedigree. On the other hand, college adds some breadth of knowledge.  If I haven't used it, I haven't studied it.  And there are some huge holes in my knowledge that I periodically have to scramble to patch.  Plus, some companies only hire pedigreed programmers.  That, and I spent several years getting paid what an intern would get paid, just so I could fulfill the "or equivalent experience" part of other company's hiring requirements.</blockquote>