Google, Apple and 13 others no longer require employees to have a college degree

Right, they just require 15 years experience at other companies that won’t hire you without a college degree.

Whole Foods doesn't require you to have a college degree to work their cash registers? Shocking

Degree requirements are generally for the corporate jobs.

Retail management is loaded with art and English majors.

When was there ever such a requirement? I must have missed it. I never finished a degree, nor even took any CS courses, and this was common among devs of my acquaintance in the '90s and early aughts.

Those 13 companies are not special.

These "requirements" are generally a wish list (outside of some heavily regulated occupations) and I have started seeing "or equivalent experience" in recent years.

The best programmers I have worked with seem to be the ones who couldn't finish school. I don't think my system would exist without their genius.