> A friend of mine was rejected for a sales engineering job... Seems like he wouldn't have even made it to the interview phase if the BS was a hard requirement

> A friend of mine was rejected for a sales engineering job... Seems like he wouldn't have even made it to the interview phase if the BS was a hard requirement imposed from above. Are you sure your friend wasn't just rationalizing why he didn't get hired? That said, I agree with your message -- get a degree folks...