<p>You will always have folks in hiring positions who will frown on someone not following the “conventional” way to a career. Some hiring manager will pick out SOMETHING whether it’s the B.S. degree title from 10 years ago or was it an online degree or something to nitpick at. In the end, supply/demand wins out and not every employer can be that way.</p>
<p>I did the B.S. in Math to M.S. in Engineering route. My grad degree is more of an systems engineering management degree but hey, it “checks off the box” for the requirement and after all my years of experience, that is all I needed. I have never had a problem securing software engineering jobs.</p>