It's just a piece of paper which tells that I know something.

You know, same thing could be said about a driver license, yet you still need it for certain things.

Depends on how/where the degree was earned. I have seen it as both a waste of money and totally worth while. The degree is not going to mean much for those students who believe that the paper is enough. If you really study and augment the paper with self study and personal projects, you will kill it. If money is an issue, find the cheapest school and get the paper, but do your own study after class.

Context: I dropped out of school, no degree. But I pretty much kill it. Maybe I'd have got there earlier with the paper? Maybe not.

@Jilano k

i could be terribly wrong, to me a degree in cs is overrated and every smug graduated person can kiss it, people around me hate it when I say that, how dare me discredit the holiness of a college degree?
they think im some braindead idiot who thinks i'll become the next zuck just because i dropped out like him or bill

i dropped out because i did just the programming courses and i needed to get a job earlier to support my family, and the other courses felt terrible or non interesting (I did public uni)

if i had to pick between a grad and an undergrad, of course I would be inclined to pick the graduate, but it's not a guarantee of being a good coder. ive seen some god awful graduated coders with some some awful atittudes to go with...

so degree is preferred, i apprecis
ate the extra knowledge on other fields, but it's not at actual sacred levels, it's not like we're fucking doctors and we need a license