It depends on the market and company. Here in Germany big companies love their degrees. Startups tend to care less everywhere.
There's a big caveat to not having a degree, you must nonetheless know the material covered by a decent degree.
In a technical interview you must be able to answer technical questions. This includes how a computer works (memory, ram, CPUs, threading, etc.) as well as basic complexity theory, and also process questions (such as issues and source control). I expect knowledge about software architecture and experience in basic distributed systems (think cloud deployment).
It's not really relevant to me that your degree may not have covered that material. I want you to know it before I'd hire you.
What a degree does tell me is that you're capable of following instructions and capable of learning. For somebody without experience this could be helpful to get the initial interview, and can provide some talking points.
If you are a freelancer, even the state looks at this.
You wanna be "freiberufler" and not pay corporate taxes? Well, better sell some "higher value services"! How do you proove this? Simple, get a degree and we believe you, otherwise? good luck!
It depends on the market and company. Here in Germany big companies love their degrees. Startups tend to care less everywhere.
There's a big caveat to not having a degree, you must nonetheless know the material covered by a decent degree.
In a technical interview you must be able to answer technical questions. This includes how a computer works (memory, ram, CPUs, threading, etc.) as well as basic complexity theory, and also process questions (such as issues and source control). I expect knowledge about software architecture and experience in basic distributed systems (think cloud deployment).
It's not really relevant to me that your degree may not have covered that material. I want you to know it before I'd hire you.
What a degree does tell me is that you're capable of following instructions and capable of learning. For somebody without experience this could be helpful to get the initial interview, and can provide some talking points.
In Germany they really care about degrees and it bothers me, you earn more if you have one regardless of what you actually know and can do
Yes.
If you are a freelancer, even the state looks at this.
You wanna be "freiberufler" and not pay corporate taxes? Well, better sell some "higher value services"! How do you proove this? Simple, get a degree and we believe you, otherwise? good luck!
Yeah, the laws for Freiberufler are rather unfair.
Thank you. That was helpful.