Starting now, it's probably more necessary than it was 10, 15, 20 years
ago. In my entire time in IT, I can count all the people I've ever meet
that were born and raised in the U.S.* and with an IT degree on one
hand. I've meet plenty with all sorts of other degrees: geology,
philosophy, medical, you name it. In nearly 20 years I've only ever had
one company tell me that a degree was an absolute requirement for
working there. That was this year, so things may be changing.

I don't have any experience with it, but I'd imagine that if you're
looking to do something like actually design new hardware, you'd have to
have a degree unless you're going to go entrepreneurial.

* If you're looking to work on an H1B or similar, I suspect a degree is
a hard requirement.

On 11/12/2015 7:51 AM, Mitt Green wrote:
> Hi everyone‎,
>
> This is offtopic. I'm interested in whether college or university degree
> is necessary to work in IT industry (of any kind: admin, embedded systems
> developer, driver developer, mobile systems, consulting, hardware etc).
>
> Questions:
> 1) Are there many people without degrees in the industry?
> 2) Which companies (just for examples) don't require it?
> 3) Are there any hobbyists around here, that earn some money from
> coding?
>
> From what I've heard, universities here teach something that is
> obsolete and is not used anymore, or simply don't teach what we do
> here (Unix, administration, hardware...).
>
> Thanks for any kind of information,
>
> Mitt
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