I believe I'm a great designer/developer who just happens to be without a college degree.<p>I would love to be able to work at a wonderful company like google, but I feel like I will never be seen as a potential candidate. Is this true?
You might focus on trying to get <i>any</i> job at such a company, and then be really proactive about showing off your designer/developer skills. I knew an Apple retail employee without any college education who landed an engineering job in Cupertino through an internal talent program.<p>You might also consider looking at startups or incubators. They tend to be less interested in credentials and more interested in ability to execute than some of the larger companies.<p>So, it's possible, but I would agree with the other poster that trying to stand out among a normal application pool would be really difficult.
I'd recommend setting your sights on a small company. Once you get good experience, education is less important. The problem I see coming though is that you work at X company for say 3 years. You're going to have a hard time coming up with references since they're all employees at your current company. So do whatever you can to develop meaningful references.<p>I'd also go to a market with a ton of jobs, such as the Bay Area. It's a numbers game. Eventually, if you're smart, someone will hire you.
You probably can, but consider that you will be competing against probably 20 other people if Google hires 1 out of 20 interviewed. This is just based on rough estimates,but: Ten will have a BS, five will have a MS, and one or two will have a phd. keep in mind this is if you get an interview. Everyone will be afraid of looking bad if they hire a dummy. What would you do?
It might not be easy but some serious skills can trump a required college degree in my opinion. You don't have an email in your profile but feel free to shoot me some links to some of your work and a little bit about yourself and we can chat. (I'm a frontend dev without a degree at Google)
You can for sure.But because you don't have a degree you will have to take a differet path.
Prove you are what you say(great designer/developer etc..) Build your portfolio, make online repo and then get in touch with google,amazon,facebook,apple recruiters.All the best.