"English majors" is a pretty wide-reaching group. You have really intelligent people who are passionate about deep analysis of literature, and you have people w

"English majors" is a pretty wide-reaching group. You have really intelligent people who are passionate about deep analysis of literature, and you have people who just felt like majoring in liberal arts because they're lazy and "science is hard". Anecdotally, I have a good friend with a BA in English Lit who's now doing Rails dev at an early-stage startup (and doing a pretty bang-up job, from what I hear). I'm willing to buy that, statistically speaking, more people who major in computer science or math will become good developers than people who major in the humanities, but that's fairly obvious: what you major in is a decent indicator of what you're interested in. Sure, not every English major who learns to code will become a rockstar ninja guru, but that's true of STEM students as well. Unless you can prove otherwise, there's no reason to believe that there's something inherent about majoring in English that inhibits the sort of analytic mindset that engineering requires.