I think of English courses as teaching you about being convincing to humans. Correctness is important, but secondary. This is probably best exemplified by anecd

I think of English courses as teaching you about being convincing to humans. Correctness is important, but secondary. This is probably best exemplified by anecdotes being arguably the most evocative form of explanation, and yet the weakest form of evidence. It makes sense to me that a technology company would downweight achievements in the humanities when hiring (for their technical positions). It's a noisier signal. Computers and nature aren't convinced or understood in the same way as humans are, so a lot of the English major benefits get lost in the translation to STEM. (Serious question: what are the best examples of people in the humanities contributing to science and technology? For example, Noam Chomsky basically invented formal grammars.)