Basically anywhere where you have to compete with a lot of people, it is the first filter to cut the stack from 100 to 50.
I’ve seen data scientists from political science backgrounds, UI engineers who studied literature and philosophy, and I have a CS degree myself, but I’m originally from the bioinformatics space.
Now, networking is a thing of course. Many people get in that way, but for J. Random Applicant reading this, not an option.
Interesting list of examples, I wouldn’t necessarily have grouped these together?
Have you applied for these at some point? I haven’t, but the emphasis seems quite different at each company