<p>As far as I know, the last time I worked with a programmer who didn’t have a college degree was at Sun circa 1997. </p>
<p>One can always come up with an anecdote about people getting jobs without degrees. At big companies like Google and Facebook there are bound to be some programmers without degrees, but I wonder what the percentage is? I’d suspect it’s pretty small. </p>
<p>I can see someone without a degree getting hired at a small start-up, though.</p>