CS degrees give you an academic understanding of CS: theory and how the things you use actually work. This can be useful knowledge but isn’t necessary. So CS ma

CS degrees give you an academic understanding of CS: theory and how the things you use actually work. This can be useful knowledge but isn’t necessary. So CS masters degrees are good but also shouldn’t be necessary for getting a job. However you should still require at least a basic “academic” understanding of CS, since that is discrete structures and recursion and other stuff you pretty much need to know to write good software