I have a CS degree and it probably helped me get my first job. I've also hired Jr. Developers who sometimes did and sometimes did not have a CS degree. My experience is that communications skills and attitude are extremely important. I'll gladly hire a motivated, self-taught coder who majored in English Lit.
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#52Physics and then materials science. I haven't noticed that it's been a problem, either from actual work or getting pestered by recruiters. But I've mostly been in work related to scientific computing so far, where non-CS degrees are almost more the rule than the exception.
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#53I've got a degree in microbiology, and never taken any computer-related classes in college. I wish I had spent time coding rather than identifying bacteria.
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#54My CS degree is dated but I have always managed to incorporate my skills into projects that did not effectively start out with a need for a programming side.
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#55Degree in Computer Engineering. 5 year program covering how a computer works inside, culminating in designing ad building your own computer from scratch (I mean literally from scratch, just wires and basic AND/OR/NOT gates) to make a Von Numen like architecture with a basic (also from scratch) OS. I definitely learned more practical stuff from that to help me in every day software design than I would with a CS degree.
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#56But I wish I hadn't. If I could go back, I'd do a degree in maths. It underpins everything and I always find myself hitting a maths wall (except in studying natural language).
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#57Is a degree in mathematics considered cs related for this poll?
You'd hope so given the number of CS departments that are headed or founded by people with degrees in mathematics.
I'm in the mathematics degree category as well, with a career mainly in numerical programming.
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#58No CS degree. No one has ever cared.
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#59No CS degree, all my uni work is in Medieval Lit.
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#60I'm "In Progress", I was doing contract work while I was still in high school and took two years off after high school to work at a variety of companies, then left a 6-figure job at 19 to go back to school and finish my degree so I wouldn't have a hard time finding jobs in the future (and because I knew that if I didn't do it then, which allowed me to graduate college the same year as my high school classmates, I wou…
As an economist I wish more people would follow the math/econ option and add CS coursework. Unfortunately, most economist are scared to venture beyond Excel, Stata, and SAS, and I believe this creates a professional focus on static models.
Careerwise, not studying CS has not impacted my income, but it may have impacted my ability to get a job in CS. However, I blame this more on my own inability to signal CS competency.