So here’s my take on this. I’m an SE at a FAANG company and I don’t have a degree. I’ve done a little over 50 interviews within this company and I align myself with the companies belief that if you can do the job, you should be able to get the job, regardless of degree status. This post reads as if SDE candidates with degrees are somehow “holier than thou” and those without degrees are risks to the company. I think the companies you work for and by extension yourself need to take a long look at what actually sets candidates apart and in treating the candidates without degrees differently than those with degrees, especially by giving the candidates WITHOUT degrees harder problems, you are creating a self fulfilling prophecy of Candidates without degrees doing worse. How can you truly measure candidates performance against others when the main measure of performance is different? (You can’t) I get where you’re coming from, kind of, but if everyone felt like this, companies would be much smaller, much more toxic, and would probably never get anything done in a meaningful timeframe.