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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who works in a major tech company, wake up people.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-liberal-arts-is-the-future-2017-2#:~:text=Cuban's%20forecast%20of%20the%20skills,is%20changing%2C%22%20Cuban%20said.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40440952/why-this-tech-ceo-keeps-hiring-humanities-majors

https://medium.com/@amwinte2/stop-calling-them-soft-skills-why-your-humanities-major-is-more-valuable-than-you-might-think-4d67f7ef2cac

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/the-ceos-of-youtube-slack-and-whole-foods-all-have-liberal/362550

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Not to beat a dead horse…but these are all humanities/liberal arts degrees from top universities.  Only the Chipotle example is UC Boulder but he also founded the company (vs the others that were hired…though the YouTube CEO also joined Google when it was just like 5 people and knew Sergei and Larry personally when it was just them).

In some respects it’s irrelevant what you studied at these schools and more that you have already been “vetted” as a very intelligent person.

My kid’s friend from Princeton was just hired at an AI company at $300k with a philosophy degree (but started in engineering and has a fairly strong engineering background).  This person is fairly blunt that it was the Princeton degree that explained 75% of getting hired.  The outcome would have been the same if this person had stuck with engineering and had been interested in this company…because they hire kids with all different backgrounds from top schools.[/quote]

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