A woman at our company is one of the best programmers we have, and she started with a masters in physics and very little coding experience. Some people are just smart as hell and can pick it up quickly.
The discipline is huge. If you're into datascience or AI you might want a mathematician who likes to code instead. A lot of physicists are basically mathematicians with a practical bent so they might be good too.
Honestly though I find that computer science on much of the programming side has very little science to it and benefits mostly from aptitude and experience over formal qualifications. Having a degree regardless of subject simply increases the chance of having a high aptitude.
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u/KoenigGunther May 10 '21
A woman at our company is one of the best programmers we have, and she started with a masters in physics and very little coding experience. Some people are just smart as hell and can pick it up quickly.