Unless, in fact, they can. Of course, any career progression requires more than just one trick in your bag. Being able to communicate well, moving from coding

Unless, in fact, they can. Of course, any career progression requires more than just one trick in your bag. Being able to communicate well, moving from coding into managing, moving from coding to freelancing, getting domain knowledge relevant to your customers (internal or external). Turns out there are many important qualities that a person can posses that are important and perhaps indispensable, but often a degree ain't one. (And yes, I am an old guy speaking with first hand experience).