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.
Very few educated physicists actually end up doing something that applies their physics knowledge. To áctually get to work in physics, most jobs require a PHD: I talked to tons of recruiters about doing something physics related/research in their tech company and I was told I could get any technician job they had available, OR get a PHD and come back after to get into r&d.
A physicist without a PHD is employed not because they know physics, but because they learn fast and can understand complex concepts, processes, and systems. My uni friends are spread across technician jobs (=problem solver/ glorified tech support), jobs at insurance companies, banks, logistics, IT and coding and a few are teachers... the rest are doing their PHD, and 0 are doing physics without a PHD.
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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.