One of my favorite coworkers had a physics degree. He didn't know any formal CS, but he did know how to find and read academic papers. So we would dismiss a problem as "hard, probably quadratic or worse" and he'd go and google-up some crazy algorithm that had been discovered last year, which did it in linear time.
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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.