It's much worse if you don't have ANY sort of degree, despite having skills. I once applied for an internal job at a major options exchange to go from NOC to a

It's much worse if you don't have ANY sort of degree, despite having skills. I once applied for an internal job at a major options exchange to go from NOC to app support and managed to get an interview with HR. When I got up there, the HR person looks at my resume, notices a lack of degree and says "Sorry, we require that you have a degree." I quit about a month later to do a near identical job for higher pay and aced it. Their loss. Lesson learned? If a company requires a degree, permanently refuse to work with them in the future, since, for some reason, they love calling back a year later with a great opportunity I can "learn" at.