I have also completed a degree online and another in-person. It's a different experience but I strongly disagree that the online one is not as good for starting

I have also completed a degree online and another in-person. It's a different experience but I strongly disagree that the online one is not as good for starting a new career (in my case it led to a prestigious PhD program and it was not an unusual outcome among my peers, definitely not an exception). I suspect many people's impression of online degrees is coloured by the fact that a lot of online programmes are opportunistic money making schemes of poor quality, but that is not an intrinsic property of this mode of learning.