2 of my friends work in HR. They tell me, that they see a university degree not as a valuable certification criterion on its own. I mean, the tech industry has

2 of my friends work in HR. They tell me, that they see a university degree not as a valuable certification criterion on its own. I mean, the tech industry has always been a bit special in this regard. There are lots of excellent autodidact programmers, that never saw a university and there are a number of people that have specialized in getting good grades, but could not implement 10 lines on their own. Most recruiters are aware of that fact, thats why we have to do stupid whiteboard interviews for senior developer jobs. I suspect, that with the further erosion of principles and standards of universities, this mindset will creep into other domains as well.