Yeah, I alluded to this but didn't want to get into the thick of it. Degrees are like filters. I've done a lot of resume reading in my time, filtering through

Yeah, I alluded to this but didn't want to get into the thick of it. Degrees are like filters. I've done a lot of resume reading in my time, filtering through candidates for jobs. It's mindboggling how many responses one gets. Literally hundreds. And that wasn't my full time job (which was software development). At the point that you're looking at hundreds of responses, you start applying certain filters so that you can increase your probability of finding what you want. Typically the initial filter is something that doesn't require a lot of time. For many, this tends to be if they have a CS degree.