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Ok, but therein lies a rub because some of the "help wanted" ads I see have been running for months and they've still not hired anyone, or at least the ads continue to run.

This one, for example, has been up since June and has been included in the CouchDB "Weekly News" since then. Seems odd they've not filled the position and that's part of what got me wondering about this:

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/142140/code-monkey-web-applic...

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If someone with a degree isn't able to cross their interview, what would make then think that someone without a degree would be able to do it ? Why would they risk spending on the interview where they think the candidate has even lesser chance ?

The answer to the 1st question is nothing.

Nothing would make them think that and that's obvious so the real question is "why do they think that?" because the fact is there are a lot of great programmers that never got a degree.

The answer to the 2nd questions is to find someone who can actually do it. If you need a real world example look at Apple Computer.

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