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I honestly couldn't care less what she majored in a quarter century ago. Do you honestly believe a CS bachelors degree from a couple of decades ago would have

I honestly couldn't care less what she majored in a quarter century ago. Do you honestly believe a CS bachelors degree from a couple of decades ago would have any relevance to information security today?

0xbear 9y ago
Certainly more relevance than a Music degree. Having been a security researcher in the past would have helped too, but that's not on the menu either. I would like to understand the thought process that resulted in hiring a Music major to run an organization in charge of protecting one of the largest troves of PII in the history of mankind.
- watwut 9y ago
  Around 5 years into career, it does not matter what you studied or whether you finished. It matters only what you do now and how old are you. The process starts with music major getting job out of music industry and then working her way up the corporate ladder just as anybody else ever worked his way up - except with having some disadvantage in the beginning.
  - 0xbear 9y ago
    Do you apply this line of reasoning to your doctors and lawyers as well?
    - wglb 9y ago
      Check what batchelor degrees the majority of Lawyers have. It might surprise you. Most practicing programmers that are called engineers are not trained in Engineering either. Computer Science is not Engineering.
      - 0xbear 9y ago
        What's a "batchelor" degree? If you meant "bachelor", I was quite pleased to see that the surgeon who was about to operate on me also had a pre-med engineering degree from MIT.
        wglb 9y ago
        What undergraduate degree do your lawyers have?
    - watwut 9y ago
      I described how it works in this industry. Lawyers and doctors work in different industry and are bound by different laws. There was no line of reasoning, only observation. You asked the question, I answered. I assumed you work in different place/industry and your question is honest quest to find how things work.

0xbear 9y ago

Certainly more relevance than a Music degree. Having been a security researcher in the past would have helped too, but that's not on the menu either. I would like to understand the thought process that resulted in hiring a Music major to run an organization in charge of protecting one of the largest troves of PII in the history of mankind.

watwut 9y ago
Around 5 years into career, it does not matter what you studied or whether you finished. It matters only what you do now and how old are you. The process starts with music major getting job out of music industry and then working her way up the corporate ladder just as anybody else ever worked his way up - except with having some disadvantage in the beginning.
- 0xbear 9y ago
  Do you apply this line of reasoning to your doctors and lawyers as well?
  - wglb 9y ago
    Check what batchelor degrees the majority of Lawyers have. It might surprise you. Most practicing programmers that are called engineers are not trained in Engineering either. Computer Science is not Engineering.
    - 0xbear 9y ago
      What's a "batchelor" degree? If you meant "bachelor", I was quite pleased to see that the surgeon who was about to operate on me also had a pre-med engineering degree from MIT.
      - wglb 9y ago
        What undergraduate degree do your lawyers have?
  - watwut 9y ago
    I described how it works in this industry. Lawyers and doctors work in different industry and are bound by different laws. There was no line of reasoning, only observation. You asked the question, I answered. I assumed you work in different place/industry and your question is honest quest to find how things work.