This doesn't make sense to me on first read. I'm unaware of a labor law that requires you to interview people without college degrees. Care to elaborate?
I may have worded it wrong. A large swath of programming jobs do not require a college degree, and in those cases it's illegal to require one. This is why job ads will say, "Desired: College degree or equivalent experience." They don't describe it as a requirement for a reason.
If you design your interviews to focus on knowledge and abilities taught in college, you tend to cut out people without college degrees who don't have the personal grit to go teach themselves those subjects. Since most people don't care for academic learning, this effectively requires a college degree in general.
That said, the big G does hire a number of people without degrees, I hear.
