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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t need a CS degree to do cybersecurity, cloud or most of that stuff.

My degree is in theater and I am the program manager of a huge IT project on a government project.  I started at one of those computer training places  I’ve hired many who do not have a CS degree. They are not all technical positions.

My just hired a project manager and they have a degree in psychology and minor in English.

I also have another project manager who does IT training and has a degree in European History and German.[/quote]
The job market has changed since you were in college.  There are so many graduates now with a CS or Business background.  Why would they be hiring theater majors for PM roles?  Or, English or Psych majors?  I guess government pays so little they are getting the bottom of the barrel or something.   So, maybe that's why our government doesn't run as efficiently.

I would never hire someone from one of those IT training places unless it was for a helpdesk role (which are all offshored, btw).  All of the PM jobs I see require either a background in IT, CS, business or finance.  I never see a PM role where the "degree required" says "English or Psych"; certainly not theater.

I worked in SV including FAANGs, never worked for the government.    Maybe that's the difference.[/quote]

The tech world is more complicated now and very little of it is "CS". When CS majors go to FAANG they grumble that they aren't doing any CS.

CS majors are often a poor fit for PM roles because PMs are managing products for users to interact with, and users... Arent CS majors. 
Firms have PMs for user facing products, and Technical PMs for internal technology products. Of course if you work in B2B tech like Cloud APIs, then your user "PM" also needs to be technical. [/quote]

CS majors from top SLACs make good PMs. Has technical knowledge and has a well rounded education.[/quote]
CS majors from non SLACs also take non CS classes, like Gen Eds. Same as SLACs.

What non CS class are CS majors at SLACs having to take that others don't?[/quote]

Ones where there are extensive readings, small seminars lead by professors, and writing read by professors and graded on more than mechanics.[/quote]

Ok, so you are wrong to think this isn't happening at non LACs.[/quote]

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