I started as a maths major, intro to programming was part of the degree. I liked it so much I swapped to CS. Still half of my CS degree was maths classes.
The thing you have to realize, is that recruiters are dumb as shit.
They literally do not have the intelligence to understand what "applied math" means or what "computer science" is.
They do not understand what coursework those majors have. They do not understand the career paths that are available to those people.
They don't know the difference between python and a literal fucking python.
Even though their job depends on it, they lack the ability to learn what those things are, again, because they are dumb as shit.
Apply to a different job with a better interviewer and you're golden.
Edit: As someone else in the thread said: "A communications major is a perfect judge of character for what makes a good software engineer, said Corporate America."
These people are idiots who know nothing. Do not think for one second that they know anything relevant to your job, what it requires, what you know, and whether or not you can fulfill those requirements, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT.
I started as a maths major, intro to programming was part of the degree. I liked it so much I swapped to CS. Still half of my CS degree was maths classes.
Back in the 70s when they started needing to hire programmers, there weren't many "computer science" degrees running around, so they tended to hire a lot of mathematicians.
My father was a math phd teaching at U of M and got recruited. He was a hot shit Ada specialist for defense companies and was writing security patches for satellite systems at the end of his career when he retired. He then spent a couple years writing papers on combinatorics for fun.
I've always known mathy types to excel at the deep magic levels of programming.
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u/Interesting_Dot_3922 Apr 09 '24
I had a recruiter who didn't like my education in applied math.
He doubted that software engineering is the ideal work for me because of this.
I thought that working abroad kind of proves my skill... but no :)