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What do you consider a background in compsci? A few years in the industry?

Because my degree is in Management Information Systems (MIS), but I've done troubleshooting on both performance problems of the O(n^5) variety and problems of the "not covered in the requirements document" variety... Not sure what else I need to understand, say, memory bounds-checking problems or firewall/ACL configuration problems.

EDIT: expanded acronym

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What’s MIS?

Management Information Systems. A "business oriented" computer degree. They were popular in the 80s as an alternative to comp. sci. They focus on how to use databases and spreadsheets, and other analytical and management systems. In those days, "decision support" software was a big thing. Is MIS still a thing anymore?

I got a degree in it in the early 2010s (technically my university called it Information Science and Technology)

I just say "business and computers and how they go together" when explaining it.

It's still a thing, or at least it was a few years ago. I worked with several recent MIS graduates at a consulting firm in the mid-late 2010s. But I'd never even heard of the degree before that point, I majored in math, minored in CS, and did dissertation work in a business school (admittedly, economics, so not particularly business-y).

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