Teaching foreign policy majors to code
I must say I am conflicted to write on this subject. On the one hand I am a person who has a humanities background turned to coding (bachelor&#x27;s on philosophy; master&#x27;s on sociology) but on the other hand I am burned out now and unwilling to do anything code related thanks to previous employers so my outlook isn&#x27;t a nice one.<p>The problem I experienced was most of the companies want a bachelor of science or an engineering degree on their job postings. I think this is because the workshop kool-aid has proven ineffective in creating good programmers but rather code workers who are good at menial jobs but unable to provide good solutions. So if a foreign policy major decides to go full on coding by self-teaching skills to himself he&#x27;d get slaughtered on job applications, without being able to show his skills on the technical interviews.<p>Secondly, the job politics of most companies are just dreadful. After all those humdrum job interviews, skill tests, certification badgering; what I experienced is writing code that generates a sql query to the parameters that&#x27;s  taken from the frontend which had NOTHING to do with interview questions or the skills demanded by the employer.<p>In sum, I have to emphasize that these are my experiences and maybe limited to where I live and tried to earn my keep by coding. So I hope that it is a local thing and where you live has a better environment when it comes to employing programmers who are outside of the field.<p>Thanks for reading anyway.