I’ve finished a BSCS sans one class and have had internships and knew people at a startup that was looking for people (and having a hard time finding them) with

I’ve finished a BSCS sans one class and have had internships and knew people at a startup that was looking for people (and having a hard time finding them) with exactly the skill set I had. They still refused to consider me. My friends there said it was because I didn’t have a degree. There are exceptions to this but the way companies treat you with and without a degree are totally different, most of them really don’t care about anything else.