I have worked for more than one employer in Silicon Valley that expressly forbade me from considering candidates without bachelor degrees for my open reqs. This

I have worked for more than one employer in Silicon Valley that expressly forbade me from considering candidates without bachelor degrees for my open reqs. This was over my objections, because I strongly believe a degree says nothing about a candidate's job skills. One place even went so far as to limit the acceptable majors. CS and CE only, not even EE was acceptable. Nevermind that EE is often in the same department and some people may have gone to schools without dedicated CS programs. Exceptions could only be made if the candidate was a direct referral and that person really went to bat for you. It's total nonsense. I have a CS degree myself and it hasn't informed my professional work at all. I don't find myself referring back to my databases coursework where we used a made-up non-SQL language or my operating systems class which was about punch cards and paper tape OSes (and this was in the early 2000's, not 1975!).