Don ' t talk to me or my son ever again . <| sep |> Not exactly . Especially with so many designers using great looking templates for the portfolios these days . I freelance often at a pretty well known agency and they were going through portfolios of candidates to fulfill a designer position last week . All the finalists had amazing work but they went with the one with the degree . The comment that stood out to me from the sr art director was but dude , she went to suchandsuch school of design . pretty legit . Let ' s go with her . The other 3 had awesome stuff too . All 4 had quality Wordpress template sites so the display of the work looked great , they had the same types of work examples so they showed the same strengths branding , typography , layout , etc , and each had about 34 years of experience