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To: MarvinStinson
Devil's advocate weighing in: I work in very high tech electronics and probably the very best electronics engineer I ever worked with was a literature major. Nobody even wanted to hire him because he wasn't an engineer but he had bowled over the interview team and they fought for him. Turned out to be the right call, this guy could go into a lab and overnight fix a problem that teams of well-degreed engineers had been trying to figure out for weeks. He was a savant.

But that is extremely, extremely rare. I'd say since Equifax will probably go broke due to a terrible security breach their music major didn't turn out to be an outlier like the guy I described.

13 posted on 09/16/2017 1:30:59 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: pepsi_junkie

I work in very high tech electronics and probably the very best electronics engineer I ever worked with was a literature major. Nobody even wanted to hire him because he wasn’t an engineer but he had bowled over the interview team and they fought for him. Turned out to be the right call, this guy could go into a lab and overnight fix a problem that teams of well-degreed engineers had been trying to figure out for weeks. He was a savant.


True. Some people just have an almost Rain-main like ability to see patterns or know where the problem is. Rare birds.


25 posted on 09/16/2017 2:11:45 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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