I've worked for the most stupid people in the world whose only claim to their success is that they had college degrees. I knew the job forwards, backwards, sideways and inside out but had no degree.
Once I got to the corporate office it was horrendous. I worked with hard working, dedicated people and we in turn worked for morons who only got their positions because they were college grads. Get yourself a masters? You're now a manager..............automatic!
Technical degrees are another thing but in my line of field, (HR) anybody can do the job once you learn the corporation's HR policies..........
There’s an employer here that i won’t name where I found out that one of the managers didn’t even have a degree. It was simply a matter of putting in time but the problem was, well-qualified and experienced people were not getting ahead EVEN though they ALSO had a degree.
The discrimination can go both ways, sometimes.
BUt basically, I’ve met so many utter morons who had degrees, it’s become clear that it’s just an expensive delay of a large segment of young people hitting the job market and an excuse for extending our adolescence and justify the existences of professors and administrators.