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There are colleges that will transfer your credits and give you addl credit for your work experience. You may have to take a semester's worth of online classes. Why Empire State College | SUNY Empire State College
Once you have experience, a degree is not nearly as important. Just stop listing it on your resume, and just apply at places. list the college you attended, and what years.
Finish it up with some classes on the side to actually get the degree so its useful for next time.
This sounds like your best bet long term.
For this specific instance, not sure what you can really do. Normally getting ahead of any situation like this is best for you, but if it's a large company with lots of rules, you probably won't get anywhere coming forward and saying sorry, I'm a few credits short, but I'm going back. If it's a small, that might work. I think you need to be prepared that if the background report comes back with a problem, then deal with it by telling them the deal and see if they will let you stay while you finish those last credits. On the other hand, if it is a large company, they may well have run the same background check before that they will do now or not even run one. (Couldn't tell from your post if you knew for sure about that or were just guessing)
Basically it's is too late now so just try to deal with the circumstances then take action for future stuff.
Keep doing good work. Go finish your degree...that's key.
If your org calls you out, hopefully your work will have been good enough and your contacts strong enough for them to say ok. They'll have an easier time doing that if you own up to it in a way that gives them an out and makes you sound ok. Make something up now in case you need it. Like you knew you weren't finished so although it was technically a misrepresentation, you expected to finish but something (makes something up again) got in the way. But that you are finished now (again, get the degree) and feel really bad about what happened.
That's your best shot if you get called out. And even if you don't, it's your best shot for future growth and employment.
night classes, they might never ask but if they do, you will have it. we had a court case and the company chemist claimed he had a masters from texas, the opposing lawyer found out he never been to texas and no masters. company lost the case because of that. the chemist never set foot in the office from the day in court.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive" At this point, I would say nothing, they may be satisfied with your work and just assume the temp agency vetted you. On the other hand, if you get called on it, what are you going to do? Excuses? Another lie? Or do you own up to it and throw yourself at the mercy of personnel? You know as well as I do, liars can't be trusted so unless you have a damn compelling reason to justify the lie, your going to be history. I sympathize with your situation, we do what we have to in order to survive, but this is the ramifications of deciding to go down this route.
There's a T.V show on called "Suits" that is about a person who has done the same thing as you but is working for a law firm.
The web that was woven to deceive is slowly being disolved as the truth slowly becomes revealed through social conversations as people do talk to each other and the social network that is in place is usually the thing that reveals the lie.
It will be a so called "friend" that will betray your trust.
You need to backstop your social life until you get a degree as "loose lips sink ships".
During my internship, I did very well. On paper, you'd think I was a weak/inexperienced programmer, but on the job, I could program better than most senior-level engineers. My performance reviews were always off the charts, so they decided to keep my on as a $35/hour contractor for another six months. Everyone at the company loves me, and I'm sure they're going to extend me an offer for a full-time position at some point.
You are in a field where having a degree isn't always a requirement. If you are as good as you say you are, you should have no trouble finding another job. Most companies I interview with give you a pretty tough technical interview where you have to code on the fly and if you can pass those with flying colors, I guarantee they won't care if you have a degree or not. There aren't that many truly good software developers. If you are one of the few and not just some mediocre person with a degree, they will see that.
I agree with Snowtired14, there is nothing you can do with your present position. Most large companies start their required checks on the information in the application right after the hiring, if they didn't do it before because of needing someone right away. If this happens you're going to be discovered and fired.
If they don't check, or do check but their Human Resources dept. doesn't fuss about the discovery, they may keep you because they like your work. Depends on the size of the company and what regulations they feel they have to follow.
In the meantime you'd better make your prior claims come true by getting that degree. You may not stay at your present company forever, so what are you going to do next time? Lie on the application again? And again? And again?
I personally know someone with an unfinished CS degrees who pretty much goes through this every time they change jobs. Ten years later and they are finally finishing their degree, lol. But that's after making a very nice six figure salary for many years.
You're current employer, if they take you on fulltime, will find out if they do any kind background check. They may not care, but I'm betting there's a good chance they will, and may fire you.
I would:
1.) finish that degree. It will make life a whole lot easier, even though you will probably be fine.
2.) start applying to other jobs openings ASAP. Your new experience will be worth a whole lot. But don't lie about the degree!
If they don't check, or do check but their Human Resources dept. doesn't fuss about the discovery, they may keep you because they like your work. Depends on the size of the company and what regulations they feel they have to follow.
I'm betting their boss doesn't mind, but more than likely a busy body HR person, unless they've been through this before, will through a fit because they don't have a degree and the lied.
Or the HR person is just a box checker and they'll see no degree and red flag this person as unhirable, and then put on their yearly performance review that they prevented a lying, degreeless person from being hired.
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