If you have a great portfolio of designing fasteners as a hobby, couldn't the same be said of that job? To me, it is a matter of supply and demand. When the ta

If you have a great portfolio of designing fasteners as a hobby, couldn't the same be said of that job? To me, it is a matter of supply and demand. When the talent pool is larger than the demand for talent, there is a need to find a way to filter the hiring application results down to something that is manageable. A degree has become the defacto standard for doing that. It doesn't matter if you throw out great people with the bath water doing that, because you still have a ton of great people to choose from. Web development, and software development in general, have been through a fairly lengthy period of demand outpacing supply, leaving many companies without the need to arbitrarily reduce their application result set. That gives them the ability to evaluate all applicants as the normally would, just without the arbitrary filter to start.