Gee i'm glad the world is united and there are no country-borders. Oh, wait...

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
> 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).

It depends on the country, the culture, the specific job and the
company. Here, you can do without a degree if you a) have a few years'
experience (although quantity is never quality but i'm not the one
hiring) or b) you have an interesting portfolio of some kind (you
commit a lot to an open source project, you have your own github
projects, etc). Or both.

If you have none, then a degree is almost mandatory.

>
> Questions:
> 1) Are there many people without degrees in the industry?
Mostly older folks i guess. Or helpdesk people.

> 2) Which companies (just for examples) don't require it?
I'd say government companies do require it, everything else is
per-company per-job basis.

> 3) Are there any hobbyists around here, that earn some money from coding?
Not i.

Cheers,
Nuno