> If you're self taught, get a degree as soon as you can, even if you take night classes over an extended period. No matter how good you are, a large portion of companies and recruiters will autotrash your resume without an education section.

Not true. I'm self taught and I had very generous offers from the two of the three big names.

Screw spending a time to getting a degree just for the sake of it and build stuff.

I know it wasn't like that before, but times have changed and so have recruiters.