I’ve been in IT since 1983. He’s right.
Laszlo Bock, I mean.
With a caveat: A degree (and test scores) are your ticket into the cubicle farm. Once you have been there a few years they SHOULD be useless. Your performance should tell the real story.
Correct. That is a refinement of the principle "the best predictor of future performance is past performance." For a fresh-out, that's GPA and a degree. For an old hand, those things matter less than how you've been doing.