How are the degree's at your uni useless?
Work experience is the name of the game now, not many employers care about what uni you went to(unless going into IB, etc). They want to see work experience with a 1st or 2.1 obtained.
And not everyone at your university are dumb, their will be a mix of clever and not so clever people at every university.
You should never judge someone on their A-level grades or what degree they are doing.
I don't have a degree(completing mine part time), however, I've got a potential £26k programmer starting salary interview and there are highly paid programmers without A-levels, degree's who are entirely self taught.
So you should never judge anyone and give people a chance.