Parent poster is speaking from the perspective of a hiring manager trying to evaluate the candidate.  From that perspective, the critical question is &quot;Will this person perform well at my company if I hire them?&quot;  Gaming the college degree system and learning the domain-specific information needed to perform well at a job are very different skillsets.  Assuming a small team with a focused mission, general work ethic and ability to quickly absorb information correlate well with the latter, but not the former.  (In a big company where nobody knows what anybody else is doing, the correlation often goes the other way and ability to game the system correlates better with success, but usually those don&#x27;t have individual hiring managers evaluating resumes.)