One of the top devs I ever worked with, I hired him, his previous job was a fitness instructor. He had left school at 16. Had done some programming on his home

One of the top devs I ever worked with, I hired him, his previous job was a fitness instructor. He had left school at 16. Had done some programming on his home computer, and wanted to be a programmer for a living. I was blown away by his methodical approach to a simple problem I gave him. Less than year later he was running his own team that had people in it that had been to some of the top universities in the UK, like Brunel, and they all respected him. He'd completely taken control of that project. That was all using VB6. 20 years on he's now a leading C++ expert. Degrees don't mean anything imho.