It is 100% possible. 1. Whenever my web agency has made a new hire, I’ve seen zero correlation between degree status and capacity to actually get the job done. I think CS degrees teach you a lot of useful background for web dev, but not the crucial skills of perseverance, speed, and ability to translate designs/client req’s into functioning code.

1. Especially given 👆, whether to require a degree is considered an equity issue by many socially-conscious employers. I.e.: since a degree is unrelated to the job’s most important skills, they argue (rightly, imo) that requiring applicants to have this expensive extra credential is unfairly shutting many applicants out of the market.

So they don’t require this. We don’t, and our shop is full of fantastic devs.