“I see here you didn’t list a degree, did you forget to add yours?”.
“I actually don’t have one, I figured my 16 years of software engineering experience at 3 different fortune 100 companies would count as experience in lieu.”
“…well we really wanted that degree, so unfortunately…”
The exceptions and ones that don’t care are the only reason I’ve been able to advance my career so far. It’s crazy how a fresher with 0 work experience can be preferred over a a decade and a harf of real world experience just because they took some (mostly unrelated!) classes