Comment by pogopop77

If the software development is mostly stock and standard, I would agree, it doesn't matter if staff have advanced degrees or not. But developers with advanced degrees tend to have a better understanding of what is actually going on "under the hood". When tackling unorthodox, challenging problems, they use that knowledge to make better design decisions, resulting in better quality software. For those types of cutting-edge projects, I think there is value to having staff with advanced degrees.