hired

If you acknowledge a degree is important to get hired, why not just get one?

The fact that 'marginally-qualified' people get hired is orthogonal (or maybe even antithetical) to whether 'marginally-credentialed' people do.

This is my fourth monthly post and have hired a couple of great guys from the past posts.

Were they not hired me from outside of their geographic area, they would not have survived today.

We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

The employees actually hired would be those without degrees, which is what the OP says.

Actually I would have even hired that person, but my boss torpedoed him and I wasn't surprised.

But I've hired plenty of people because they felt like they were stagnating in their current jobs.

Anecdotally, I've hired truly great people, and interviewed ex-Googlers and other good pedigrees, from Stackoverflow Careers and HN posts.

In Denmark, for instance, youth and lower-skilled people just aren't being hired.

I was hired recently by a client from USA, whose previous programmer created mess of code base, they were about to go out of business, had they not hired me to fix that up.

I saw a job ad that I was now now barely qualified for, applied, and was hired to maintain a legacy Joomla website.

I found this thread because someone had pointed me at unemployable.pen.io and wanted to comment on it specifically, because having read that particular blog post, I started off thinking "man, that's someone I'd like to talk to," and then realized a few things: If you're trying to get hired, then maybe when you write a blog post on the fact, you also include a link to your resume.

I guess I meant that no good developer is out looking for a job on something like Angellist or Hired.com.