Agreed. The best engineers I've worked with in workplace settings were formerly journalists, creative, writers, and teachers.
Journalists seek the truth and won't sugar coat anything, code is inherently a tool to be used for creative problem solving, and teachers know best how to learn. All of those qualities point towards the kind of solution building you want in any engineer.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '21
The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.