I'm quite firmly against anti-intellectualism. Otherwise I think I'd then have to be anti myself! In interviews, and across my 25 year career, I've met some e

I'm quite firmly against anti-intellectualism. Otherwise I think I'd then have to be anti myself! In interviews, and across my 25 year career, I've met some excellent degree holders who brought some great skills to proceedings and a roughly similar number of excellent developers who didn't have the paper. I've also come across occasional degree holders who I'd barely trust to make coffee let alone put near code. In short, people are people. Similar to other commenters I've found no correlation between degree on CV and later ability in employment, or it to be a useful indicator for prospective employees. In consequence I do find requiring a degree for applications silly.