17 hours ago, Oberon_Command said:
Not sure where OP lives, but I can confirm that it isn't like that here in North America. Work experience is more important than having any degree, unless you're very junior and have little work experience. I have coworkers of all ages who don't have degrees. Some of them even dropped out of university because they were offered full-time jobs as software developers before graduation.
I don't know where he lives, but here in France, this is the same than him. No companies will have a look at you if you don't have a decent degree (at least a bachelor). And with a bachelor you'll mainly do boring tasks. You need a master degree to currently reach "good" jobs. I was facing that before going back to studies.
And even after a good amount of experience, the degree is always one of the first questions employers will ask you. Maybe if you have 20 years of experience then the employer will "forgive" you not having done any good studies.
I remember having made some applications for England. And even there, the studies were relevant. And they even wanted to know each of the subjects you studied for all the 5 years when you was undergraduate, things French employers commonly do not take about.
USA and probably Canada might be the only countries where companies will give a chance to someone which hasn't fulfilled a decent degree, at least from my own experience. And I currently wonder if most companies still think like this: in most applications I did, I was asked about my diploma.
And just as a question: I believe here most of us know how to multiply a matrix, knows that a 4*4 matrix can do "most 3D transforms". But who knows why ? Who can tell the theory of matrices ? It is the same for quaternions, we know how to use them, but most of us do not know the complete theory behind them. But for sure knowing if and how to apply internal or external laws could help when reading some papers or books